Seacoast · Strafford County

Water Filtration Services in Durham, New Hampshire

Durham is best known as the home of the University of New Hampshire and sits between Dover and the Great Bay estuary. The downtown and UNH campus are on municipal water, while the surrounding rural sections and outlying properties rely heavily on private wells drilled into Seacoast bedrock.

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Local water

What Durham homes tend to deal with.

Seacoast

Durham's location near Great Bay and the Lamprey River watershed means a few things for water: salt intrusion risk in wells closer to the tidal reach, iron and manganese in shallower wells, and the region-wide PFAS awareness that comes with proximity to the former Pease Air Force Base. While Durham itself is not inside the Pease consent-order footprint, Seacoast groundwater monitoring has consistently flagged low-level PFAS findings across the region, and any private-well baseline in Durham should include a PFAS panel. Arsenic from the coastal bedrock is less severe than in the southern-central granite belt but still shows up in individual wells and should be tested. Hardness is common. Radon in water can also be a factor in Durham wells drilled deep into bedrock. Older homes in the village center may have legacy lead plumbing concerns independent of source water quality.

Services in Durham

What we install here.

Durham well homes typically start with a full panel including PFAS, arsenic, radon, iron, manganese, and hardness. Treatment is tailored to the results, and it is common to end up with a stacked system: sediment and iron filtration, softening, and a reverse osmosis unit under the kitchen sink. For municipal customers, whole-home carbon plus reverse osmosis is the usual starting point. We handle NHDES PFAS rebate paperwork up to $5,000 for qualifying homes.