The city's Department of Environmental Protection has registered a $4.1 million contract with DiFazio Industries LLC to clean and repair two tanks at the Silver Lake Reservoir complex on Staten Island, according to NYC Comptroller's Checkbook NYC.
The contract, listed under PIN 82626B0008001, runs from October 20, 2026 to October 18, 2028 and was awarded through competitive sealed bidding. Checkbook NYC does not list an M/WBE designation for the award.
Silver Lake has served as a Staten Island water supply and storage site for more than a century, and DEP periodically lets tank-cleaning and structural repair contracts there to keep the system in operating condition. The listing, titled "SLT-26: Cleaning and Repairs of Two Silver Lake Tanks," doesn't break out a unit-price schedule or scope narrative beyond the title, but the two-year term suggests a full drain-clean-inspect-repair cycle rather than a single maintenance visit.
DiFazio Industries has shown up across the metro area on heavy civil and marine-adjacent work; this is a straightforward public water infrastructure job for the firm, sized in the middle of what DEP typically lets for tank rehab work.
What to do next
If you're a sub in tank coatings, confined-space cleaning, or structural steel repair, DiFazio is your prime of record on this one through October 2028 — worth a call if you haven't worked with them before. For GCs eyeing DEP's broader tank and reservoir program, this registration is a data point: DEP is still funding this maintenance category even as its bigger-ticket pumping station work (the $54.4 million Brooklyn job registered last week) dominates headlines. Check Checkbook NYC periodically for the next Silver Lake or reservoir-adjacent solicitation — this kind of work tends to repeat on a cycle.