Waters Septic Tank Service

Waters Septic Tank Service, doing business as Waters Vacuum Truck Service, provides septic tank, grease interceptor, and vault toilet pumping and extraction services to federal agencies as a small-business prime contractor based in Reno, Nevada. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) and competes under total small-business set-asides on approximately 40% of its portfolio, with the remainder full-and-open; it does not hold positions on government-wide vehicles or multiagency IDIQs.

The vendor's capability footprint centers on waste management and facility infrastructure maintenance — septic tank pumping, grease interceptor extraction, vault toilet maintenance, and related wastewater system services. Representative work includes a $7.5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, for regional vault toilet and septic tank pumping services across central Sierra locations running through September 2027; a $150.5 thousand Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons at Federal Correctional Institution Herlong for interceptor and separator extraction services through September 2026 (with five delivery orders issued to date); and a $85.1 thousand purchase order from the Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District for septic pumping services at Martis Creek Lake, exercising option year 4 and running through April 2027. Most recent work includes a $34.56 thousand purchase order from the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 for grease interceptor pumping services at the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System in Reno, awarded July 1, 2026.

Customer concentration is moderate and divided by dollar value. By award count, the Federal Bureau of Prisons facility at Herlong dominates with 19 awards (covering 71% across the top five agencies), but this agency holds only $619 thousand in combined potential value. The USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region anchors the portfolio on the dollars side with 7 awards valued at $7.8 million — 96% concentration by potential value sits with five agencies: the Forest Service, Federal Correctional Institution Herlong, Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, and United States Penitentiary Atwater. The vendor also maintains smaller engagement with the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture across the broader footprint.

Activity has flattened in recent years — four awards in 2022 declining to one in each of 2025 and 2026 — with only two awards (combined potential value $112 thousand) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing minimal recompete exposure. The vendor's work is distributed across five primary Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Bureau of Prisons and related single-award BPAs with the Forest Service and Army Corps of Engineers; these vehicles generate steady call orders rather than pipeline growth. The vendor has no subcontract footprint and operates entirely in prime capacity, with all work performed at or near the Sierra Nevada and northern California facilities it serves.

Industrial vacuum and video inspection services. Cleaning of silos, food bins, culvert pipes and storm drains. Video inspection and DVD-R of same. Transportation of any non-hazardous waste.