Water Department Employees
Superintendent Eric Carty, foreman Louie Mongiat,
meter technician, Bob Wright, equipment operators, Mat Gogan,
Dan Bates and Mike Fredette, and clerk/dispatcher, Jean Scarlata.
The five regular employees also act as pump operators licensed
by the State Board of Drinking Water Supply.
DPW Advisory Board
Dan McIntyre
Jim Pyne
Eric Sonnett
 Hopkinton
Water Works 1879
Picture Of The Water Tower, Where The Current Towers Are Now
At The High School
The town had been agitating the question of
the introduction of a water system for some years and different
sources of supply had been suggested. Reservoirs had been
constructed near Coburn's shop on Hayden Rowe Street and also on
Main Street, also drinking fountains in different places.
In 1879 a Boston firm was engaged to bore a
well near the "steam mill" to furnish water for these
reservoirs, the contract demanding a flow of 300 gallons an
hour.
In 1881 the town voted to drive two wells and
erect a wind mill to do the pumping; also a reservoir near
Phipps' Box Factory and to lay pipes for fire and other
purposes, the expense not to exceed $15,000.00. The reservoir
was to have a capacity of 112,500 gallons.
Improvements have been made from time to
time, more wells driven, the tank enlarged, steam substituted
for wind power, till the town can boast a never failing supply
of pure water, ample for all necessary purposes. Early in 1896,
a banquet was given at the Reservoir house in Woodville in honor
of the extension of the water works to that village.
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