The council authorized staff to sign a service agreement to provide remote access and reprogramming for the booster station that supplies water to the western warehouse area and other recently connected accounts, and it approved pursuing an ROV inspection of two town storage tanks pending a second quote.

Service agreement and retuning: Staff explained the booster station had been sized initially for a single large warehouse and that growth in the served area (presented as 15 additional taps) has altered the station’s operating profile. The requested work includes adding remote access for on-call adjustments and retuning pump staging so medium- and high‑flow pumps run correctly during peak demands. The council voted unanimously (5-0) to authorize the town manager to sign the agreement; members asked that payment terms be revised from the contractor’s net-30 wording to match municipal processing timelines before final signature.

Tank inspections (ROV): Staff also presented a quote to perform remote-operating-vehicle (ROV) inspections on two tanks — a 300,000‑gallon glass-lined tank at the wastewater treatment plant and the 456,000‑gallon tank at the booster station. The vendor quote presented to council was $11,850. Council authorized the town manager to proceed but directed staff to secure a second, responsive quote and to delegate signature authority to the town manager if the alternative quote was lower, with a final amount not to exceed the figure cited in the packet unless the council revisits the matter. Staff said the inspections will not require emptying the tanks and are a common preventive step to identify early corrosion, sediment levels and accessory‑pad issues.

Why it matters: Council members expressed concern about maintaining adequate fire flow and water pressure as the industrial area grows. Staff explained that the booster station draws primarily from the station’s ground-storage tank and that the system includes low‑suction cutouts and safeguards to avoid excessive town-wide pressure drops. Members asked staff to run test scenarios and monitor town pressures during retune operations to ensure in-town service is maintained.

Outcome and next steps: The retuning agreement was authorized pending a contract payment-term change consistent with municipal processing. The tank-inspection work was authorized with the instruction to obtain a second quote; the town manager was delegated signatory authority if a lower responsive quote is received.