New water tower

This is what the town’s new water tower looks like today, after a summer of construction work, mainly by welders from all over the eastern seaboard.  The water tank is constructed of steel panels that are welded together, and that is the big bulging thing that sits on the ground still.  What remains to be done is to add on the flat top made out of pie shaped wedges of steel, lift the whole thing into place at the top of the cement column, attach it to those protruding braces, and insert the steel column in the center that will allow one to climb to the top through the middle of the tank.  The cement column is actually hollow, and never contains any water.

The tank was recently painted “tower white,” per Mike Sullivan, a color they chose at the town house.  To me the color looks much like the old water tower’s color, which my eyes had always seen as a light blue.  The construction crew told one walker from my home that they  could have made the water tower any shape or color the town wanted – perhaps we missed an opportunity to have an iconic shaped water tower.  What is the proper water tower shape for Medfield?  I do not know, but I wish that we had run a contest to collect ideas, and see what surfaced.