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Improvements to Medway Water System

Posted on: April 28, 2016 - 1:44pm

After many years of deferred capital investment in the infrastructure of the Medway water system, the current Water & Sewer Commission have been working to update and improve the Medway water system for the past several years.  Current Water & Sewer Commissioners include: Chair Robert Wilson, Cranston Rogers, and Leo O’Rourke. 

Now, in year 5 of this phased update the Department of Public Services has: replaced all water meters in town; replaced the Highland Street tank; replaced lines throughout town including Main, Village, West, Highland, Adams, and Winthrop Streets. Some pipes that were replaced dated back to 1911.

The Water and Sewer Division is charged with the operation and maintenance of the Town’s water supply, water treatment, water distribution and wastewater collection systems.  This entails oversight of the system’s pumping and treatment facilities located at four drinking water well sites.  Being a groundwater systems, the Town treats its raw water with the addition of sodium fluoride for dental health, lime for corrosion control and sodium hypochlorite for disinfection.  All of these treatment processes require daily manual monitoring by certified staff as well as with the Department’s recently installed Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system.  Drinking water is pumped to two water storage tanks having a combined capacity of 2.8 million gallons. 

The wastewater system is comprised of approximately forty-four miles of gravity sewer that discharges into the treatment facility operated by the Charles River Pollution Control District.  Through its recent sewer extension project, the Department now operates and maintains a sewer pump station located in the Trotter Drive Industrial Park area.

Upcoming projects include:

  • Sewer System Rehabilitation and Repair – 2016
  • Design – Brentwood Neighborhood Water Main Replacement – 2016
  • Evaluation & Possible Replacement of Water Services in Dean Street, Gable Way, Kings Lane Neighborhood – 2016-2017
  • Holliston Street Water Main Replacement – 2018

Note: Due to traffic and transportation concerns, the Town is purposefully deferring capital construction work located in arterial roadways until the completion of the Route 109 Reconstruction Project.