SCITUATE — Oct. 27, 2026 — The Scituate Select Board last Tuesday awarded a contract to Foulsham Corporation to repair the seawall at 81 Surfside Road, listed on the agenda at $503,000, along with a $49,655 water supply expansion feasibility study, a joint permitting contract with Marshfield toward dredging the South River, and a replacement plow truck. The board also approved a liquor license transfer for Lupo Di Mare.
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The seawall repair at 81 Surfside Road dates to a project going back to 2018, where the wall had been undermined. The contractor will drive steel sheets, pour concrete and add rock to keep the section from further damage 34:51. Foulsham Corporation was the apparent low bidder, and town officials met with the owner the day of the meeting to review its equipment and plan.
Asked how confident the town is in FEMA’s share of the cost, Finance Director Nancy Holt estimated 50 to 75 percent. Nico Afanasenko raised concerns from other projects about vibration from driving steel sheeting near homes. Town Administrator Jim Boudreau said these sheets go only 10 feet down on the beach side, and the contractor plans to dig out the area and backfill before driving them to avoid hitting buried rock. The board approved the award by voice vote.
Water supply study. The board awarded the phase 1 water supply expansion feasibility study to Woodard & Curran for $49,655. The study, developed with the Water Resources Board through an RFP, will examine repurposing water from the sewage plant by injecting it into the ground, rather than into the water system, and whether desalination could work. Two firms were interviewed, and later phases could follow depending on results.
And I’m very, very excited to see what answers they can find for us, because right now we don’t really have any other possibilities for more water.
— Freya Schlegel, Select Board 41:52
South River dredging permit. The board awarded a joint contract with Marshfield to GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. for dredging and disposal permitting on the South River and a bathymetric survey of the North River. Afanasenko stressed that the contract does not authorize dredging; Harbormaster Stephen Mone said it covers design, permitting and engineering only, funded by a grant covering 80 percent. Permitting in Scituate Harbor has taken about three years, the official said, and dredged material would most likely go to the Mass Bay or Cape Cod Bay disposal site.
