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Services We Offer in Merrimac
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
Merrimac systems & permits
Merrimac is on its own groundwater rather than a regional surface supply, and that changes what shows up inside the house. The town pumps from the Wallace Way and Bear Hill wellfields and doses potassium permanganate at each source specifically to strip out iron and manganese — which, in the water department's own words, 'tends to cause staining of fixtures.' Potassium hydroxide and ortho phosphate are added on top of that for corrosion control. Households on private wells sit in the same aquifer and receive none of that treatment.
Sources: townofmerrimac.com · ecode360.com
Merrimac's public water comes from two groundwater wellfields — Wallace Way (240 gpm) off East Main Street and Bear Hill (280 gpm) off Bear Hill Road at the Newton, New Hampshire line — under PWS ID 3180000.
The town treats water at each source with potassium hydroxide (pH elevation for corrosion control), potassium permanganate (iron and manganese removal, 'which tends to cause staining of fixtures'), sodium hypochlorite (disinfection) and ortho phosphate (corrosion control), then filters it.
Merrimac's water bylaw warns that anyone with a privately owned well 'should be aware that it is likely the well has the same or a similar water source as the public water system.'
MassDEP rated the susceptibility of Merrimac's wells as 'moderate' under the Source Water Assessment and Protection programme, and the town has had a Groundwater Protection District Bylaw since 1994.
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Straightforward plumbing work from a local team — clear pricing, licensed technicians, and appointments that actually happen when we say they will.
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Plumbing service in Merrimac, 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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