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Peabody systems & permits
Peabody's wastewater goes to the South Essex Sewerage District, formed in 1925 and shared with Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead and Salem; the city is a named co-permittee on the district's federal discharge permit and is separately responsible for the collection system it owns. That permit requires the city to run an inflow identification and control programme focused specifically on disconnecting illegal sump pumps and roof downspouts, and the district's own sewer use regulations prohibit connecting roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains or areaway drains to a building sewer without authorisation. Storm drainage is a separate and harder problem: about 80% of the 11.5-square-mile North River watershed funnels through two culverts that converge underground at Peabody Square, and downtown has flooded in five major events since 1996, three of them federally declared disasters.
Sources: epa.gov · sesd.com · fema.gov
The EPA NPDES permit for the South Essex wastewater facility names Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody and Salem as co-permittees for unauthorized discharges and for operation and maintenance of the collection systems they own. It requires the permittee and co-permittees to control infiltration and inflow, maintain a sewer system map showing pipe diameter, date of installation, type of material and direction of flow, and run 'an inflow identification and control program that focuses on the disconnection and redirection of illegal sump pumps and roof down spouts', plus public outreach on private inflow.
SESD's Sewer Use Regulations, Section 2.6, state that no person or user shall connect roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater or other non-polluted waters to a building sewer or building drain connected to a public sewer unless specifically authorized by the Board.
SESD states that it does not own the sanitary sewers in its member communities and cannot repair sewer laterals or breaks in sewer pipes outside its own main gravity interceptors and force mains; each member community manages its own sewer system and is required to comply with Massachusetts regulations to prevent rainwater entering the sewer system. SESD's 2025 Collection System Capital Improvement Plan includes 14 prioritised projects, among them a Peabody/Salem Interceptor Condition Assessment.
Peabody's Director of Emergency Management described the city's hydrology as all the water going to one place, and said 'Our best asset is low tide, when the ocean just drains all the water out of the system. The problem is, when we get back-ups, there's no place for the water to go.' In the May 2006 storm, downtown Peabody was inundated 3 to 4 feet deep across areas up to half a mile wide, with water taking as long as 48 hours to recede.
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We cover 67 towns across the North Shore, Greater Boston and southern New Hampshire.
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Essex County
- Amesbury
- Andover
- Ballardvale
- Beverly
- Boxford
- Danvers
- Essex
- Georgetown
- Gloucester
- Groveland
- Hamilton
- Haverhill
- Ipswich
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- Manchester by the Sea
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- Merrimac
- Middleton
- Nahant
- Newbury
- Newburyport
- North Andover
- Peabody
- Plum Island
- Rockport
- Rowley
- Salem
- Salisbury
- Saugus
- South Hamilton
- Swampscott
- Topsfield
- Wenham
- West Newbury
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