Notice the signs
Observe
Look up the service address carefully, retain the dated classification, compare any mailed notice, and ask Cohasset Water how unknown or galvanized entries should be confirmed. Note which side or component the record actually covers.
Protect the room
Safety line
Do not scrape, cut, sand, or disturb suspected material for identification. Sampling and replacement should follow current water-department and public-health guidance rather than a visual guess.
Material note
Local boundary
The inventory supports planning, not a private diagnosis or promise of funding. Provider service area, ownership boundary, material status, assistance, sampling, and replacement approval are distinct questions.
Service flow
Written scope
A service-line proposal should separate record verification, field confirmation, street-side and customer-side segments, route, approved material, water shutdown, permits, excavation, flushing, sampling, surfaces, and documentation.
Close the loop
Verification
Collect the department's updated classification, approvals, inspection, pre-backfill photos, installed material record, and any post-work instruction. Future owners need a traceable record, not an unlabeled piece of removed pipe.