SCITUATE - April 7, 2026 - The Scituate Select Board has signaled its intent to move forward with a critical $3 million to $5 million water infrastructure project, centering on the construction of a third town water storage tank. This new facility is deemed essential to providing the redundancy necessary to take Scituate’s two existing, aging tanks—dating back to 1938 and 1966—offline for long-overdue rehabilitation without compromising town-wide water pressure during peak summer months.
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The primary focus of Tuesday night’s session was a detailed presentation by Ryan Allgrove, a representative from Apex (formerly Environmental Partners), regarding the precarious state of the town’s water storage [50:50]. Scituate currently relies on two welded steel tanks: the 1938 Mann Lot Road tank and the 1966 Maple Street tank [51:26]. Both have reached a stage where full sandblasting and recoating are required, a process that takes approximately four months and cannot be performed during the winter due to freezing temperatures [54:57].
