Kingston water board awards $27,705 well-cleaning bid, advances new well permit

KINGSTON -- May 26, 2026, Kingston water board approves $27,705 well-cleaning contract and advances major supply projects. The Board of Water Commissioners voted unanimously at its May 26 meeting to award the South Street well-cleaning contract to Myhouse Services Inc. at $27,705, consistent with costs from a comparable 2024 project. The board also received a positive update on a new production well whose pump test stabilized at 460 gallons per minute, slightly above projections, with a production permit application expected at 920 gallons per minute pending Kleinfelder's final report. In a parallel action, the board directed the engineering firm to prepare a proposal for updating Zone 2 wellhead protection boundaries for the Grassy Hole and Route 186 wells, prompted by new USGS data suggesting the zones may be larger than their mid-1980s delineations, a finding directly relevant to an active Plymouth Zoning Board proceeding over a proposed gas station near those boundaries. A vote on a leak detection contract, with three proposals ranging from a low bid by Prowler Underground Solutions to a substantially higher offer from CEI Consulting Engineering Corporation, was deferred to June 9 after a board member noted that written bid specifications had not been distributed for review.