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Emergency & Repairs
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Drain Cleaning
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Sewer & Trenchless
Main lines, camera work and trenchless repair.
Water Heaters
Tanks, tankless and the day there is no hot water.
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New fixtures, new lines and whole-house upgrades.
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Hamilton systems & permits
Hamilton's public water is filtered for iron and manganese at the Gordon "Tiny" Thompson Water Filtration Plant on Pine Tree Drive, and the 2025 report reflects it — manganese topped out at 50 ppb and iron at 50 ppb, against 170 and 340 ppb in 2022. The bigger plumbing variable here is what is under the street: the town is in final design on replacing "old, asbestos cement and cast-iron water mains" around Pine, Chestnut and Walnut Streets after several breaks, and a Stantec-run lead service line inventory will not finish verifying the system until late 2027. Because there is no public sewer anywhere in Hamilton, the drainage half of any plumbing job answers to Title 5 and the Board of Health rather than to a sewer department.
Sources: hamiltonma.gov
Hamilton's drinking water sources are the School St. Well (source 3119000-02G, behind School St. Park) and the Gordon "Tiny" Thompson Water Filtration Plant (source 3119000-10, at the end of Pine Tree Drive), which "consists of Idlewood I Wells, Idlewood II Well, Caisson Satellite Well and Plateau Well. Iron and Manganese are filtered out of the water at this location." The School Street Well "is currently offline due to elevated PFAS."
Hamilton actually removes iron and manganese before delivery, so mineral staining and sediment complaints here point at the house — old galvanized, a failing water heater, a softener — rather than at the supply.
Hamilton's 2025 secondary results: manganese highest detected 50 ppb (range 10–50, SMCL 50), iron highest detected 50 ppb (range 0–50, SMCL 300), pH 7.9 (range 7.0–7.9). The 2022 report, by contrast, showed manganese highest 170 ppb (range 10–170) and iron 340 ppb (range 0–340).
The measurable improvement between 2022 and 2025 is the filtration plant working — useful context when a homeowner remembers discolored water and assumes it is still happening.
Hamilton and Stantec "have progressed to final design on a critical water main replacement project in the vicinity of Pine Street, Chestnut Street and Walnut Street. These areas contain old, asbestos cement and cast-iron water mains that the Town has recently needed to repair due to several water main breaks," with the project "ready to be bid as early as Fall 2026 with a more likely construction start of Spring 2027."
Named streets with a documented break history and a scheduled replacement — the single most useful thing a homeowner on Pine, Chestnut or Walnut can know before replacing their own water service.
Hamilton's Lead Service Assessment and Inventory Project with Stantec, under the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions and Improvements, includes "field investigations to assist with water service line material identifications, water service inventory updates and customer notifications," plus statistical modelling "with the goal of using regulatory approved methods to determine that the system is free of lead service lines" — work "expected to be completed in late 2027."
The town has not yet finished confirming service line materials, so a Hamilton homeowner asking 'is my service line lead?' is asking a question the town itself is still answering.
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