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Services We Offer in Melrose
Emergency & Repairs
Leaks, breaks and the calls that cannot wait.
Drain Cleaning
Slow drains, backups and the ones that keep coming back.
Sewer & Trenchless
Main lines, camera work and trenchless repair.
Water Heaters
Tanks, tankless and the day there is no hot water.
Installation & Upgrades
New fixtures, new lines and whole-house upgrades.
Local systems
Melrose systems & permits
Melrose is on MWRA water, so nothing in the supply itself corrodes pipe — the problem is the last fifty feet. The city's September 2023 lead-and-copper round came back at a 90th-percentile of 16.3 parts per billion, above the 15 ppb action level, with four of twenty homes over. Melrose is now working under a MassDEP administrative consent order to remove at least 25 complete lead service connections a year, public side and private side, and it pays property owners $1,000 toward the private half. With 52% of the housing stock built before 1940, the service line and the branch lines behind it are the same age.
Sources: mwra.com · cityofmelrose.org
Melrose's September 2023 lead sampling produced a 90th-percentile value of 16.3 ppb — above the 15 ppb Action Level — with 4 of 20 residential samples over; no sample exceeded the copper action level.
It tells a Melrose homeowner the lead risk is in their own service line, solder and brass fixtures, not in the water the city buys — which is exactly what a plumber replaces.
Under a voluntary MassDEP Administrative Consent Order, Melrose must remove at least 25 complete lead service connections per year — the public side from main to curb stop AND the private side from curb stop to meter. In 2023 the City completed 34 full removals, 428 building inspections and 49 test pits to confirm service line materials.
The private half of the service line is the owner's cost and the owner's contractor — the consent order creates a steady, scheduled stream of that work.
The City offers property owners a $1,000 incentive toward replacing the private-side lead service line.
It is a real, quotable dollar figure that changes the price conversation on a Melrose water service replacement.
On City water main improvement projects, the contractor replaces the water main and the service line only as far as the new curb stop in the sidewalk or at the property line.
Homeowners on a repaved street routinely assume the whole line was replaced; everything from the curb stop into the house is still theirs.
Why Melrose Chooses Spencer
Straightforward plumbing work from a local team — clear pricing, licensed technicians, and appointments that actually happen when we say they will.
Licensed & Insured in Massachusetts
Every plumbing technician we send to Melrose is fully licensed, insured and background-checked.
Upfront, Flat-Rate Pricing
You approve the price before any work begins. No hidden fees, no surprise charges, no overtime rates.
Same-Day Service
Same-day appointments across Melrose and the surrounding North Shore communities.
Family-Owned and Local
A local family business, not a national call centre. The person who answers is the person who dispatches.
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Plumbing service in Melrose, and 66 nearby towns
We cover 67 towns across the North Shore, Greater Boston and southern New Hampshire.
67Towns covered
Essex County
- Amesbury
- Andover
- Ballardvale
- Beverly
- Boxford
- Danvers
- Essex
- Georgetown
- Gloucester
- Groveland
- Hamilton
- Haverhill
- Ipswich
- Lynn
- Lynnfield
- Manchester by the Sea
- Marblehead
- Merrimac
- Middleton
- Nahant
- Newbury
- Newburyport
- North Andover
- Peabody
- Plum Island
- Rockport
- Rowley
- Salem
- Salisbury
- Saugus
- South Hamilton
- Swampscott
- Topsfield
- Wenham
- West Newbury
Middlesex County
Rockingham County, NH
Norfolk County
- Brookline
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