Only two months after it was dedicated, the newly renovated Center School Clock is silent again.

The Mattapoisett clock, circa 1898, was waterlogged when snow flew into the vents of the bell tower during the recent blizzard.

Clock Keeper Ray Andrews said melted snow dripped through a hatch into the room where the mechanisms are kept.

When Andrews went into the clock tower after the storm, he said, “I could barely lift the wooden hatch. It was so heavy with snow. I scraped off over a foot of wet, slushy snow.”

While the floor of the clock tower is waterproof, Andrews said the “exceptional nor’easter” unfortunately happened to settle on the leaky hatch.

Water dripped onto some of the gears and drive shafts of the clock below. The Balzer Family Clock Works, the company that repaired the clock, drove down from Maine to pick it up the week following the storm.

The cost of the repairs is between $3,000 and $5,000, said Town Administrator Mike Gagne. An insurance claim has been sent to reimburse the expense.

The Balzer Family has already completed the repairs; however, the hourly bells will not ring again until a new, waterproof hatch can be installed.

Gagne hopes to have the repairs finished and ready for the clock to come home by the end of March.