Plymouth County Irrigation Company for Sand, Till, and Shoreline Yards
Rainfall Irrigation is an irrigation company serving Plymouth County from our office at 62 Main Street in Kingston, with sprinkler systems, landscape lighting, outdoor lighting, mosquito and tick control, and outdoor audio. The county runs from sandy pine woods and cranberry bogs to salt marsh and rocky hills, and each kind of ground changes how a system should be built.
- Town water or a private well
- Sand in the south, glacial till in the north
- Salt marsh and shoreline air
- Wooded lot edges
Sand in the south, till and ledge in the north
Much of southern Plymouth County sits on the Plymouth-Carver aquifer, a deep layer of glacial sand and gravel under Plymouth, Carver, Kingston, Duxbury, and Wareham. Water drops through that sand fast. A lawn here dries out quickly after a long soak, and much of the water runs past the roots. Shorter, repeated watering cycles and drip lines in planting beds put water where roots can use it.
Head north toward Hingham and the ground changes. Hingham's drumlin hills are made of compact glacial till, a packed mix of stone, sand, silt, and clay. Water soaks in slowly there and runs off slopes. Trenching for pipe and lighting wire meets more stone, so routes get planned around it.
IrrigationFive towns, five different jobs
Every town page covers its own conditions in full. This table shows how they differ at a glance.
| Town | Setting | What it means for irrigation and lighting |
|---|---|---|
| Kingston | Kingston Bay and the Jones River, with inland neighborhoods over the Plymouth-Carver-Kingston-Duxbury aquifer | Fast-draining sandy soil calls for split watering cycles, and homes near the bay need lighting parts that stand up to salt air. |
| Plymouth | A long coastline plus inland ponds, pine woods, and cranberry bogs on very permeable sand | Some homes run on town wells and others on private or community wells, so the water source shapes the system design from the start. |
| Duxbury | Duxbury Bay and salt marsh, over the same sand and gravel aquifer | Town rules require new underground irrigation systems to connect to a private well, not the town water system, so new systems there are planned around a well. |
| Marshfield | Open ocean beaches and salt marsh along the North, South, and Green Harbor rivers | Homes on town water follow odd and even watering days with no watering from 9 AM to 5 PM during the restriction season, and salt air is hard on exposed lighting parts. |
| Hingham | Drumlin hills and compact glacial till facing Massachusetts Bay | Slow-soaking soil and slopes need shorter cycles to stop runoff, and stone in the ground shapes where pipe and lighting wire can go. |
Covering the county from Kingston
Our office is on Main Street in Kingston. Route 3 links Hingham at the north end with Kingston and Plymouth to the south, and Marshfield and Duxbury sit along the shore between them.
We also work in Pembroke, Halifax, Hanover, Norwell, Scituate, Rockland, Carver, Wareham, Middleborough, Bridgewater, and East Bridgewater. If your town is not listed, call and we will talk through your property.
For Cohasset, Cape Cod and the Islands, Boston, and MetroWest, see all of our service areas.
Irrigation across Plymouth County starts with the water source
Before a single head goes in, the first question here is where the water comes from. Town water systems here rely heavily on wells, and many properties run on private wells. The supply decides the pump, the flow and pressure each zone can count on, and how zones are laid out. A system sized for town pressure can come up short on a well.
Each town also sets its own outdoor watering days and hours, and a smart controller can hold a schedule that follows the local rule. Our irrigation services cover design, installation, repairs, spring start-ups, mid-season inspections, winterization, and seasonal maintenance plans that keep a working system on a regular schedule of care.
Much of the county drinks from the groundwater under its lawns. A working backflow preventer keeps irrigation water out of the household supply, and a rain sensor stops the system from watering through a storm.
Landscape lightingLighting, bugs, and sound for coastal and wooded yards
Near the shore, fixture materials and sealed wire connections come first. Our landscape lighting work uses low-voltage LED fixtures for paths, trees, walls, decks, and patios, along with maintenance, repairs, and halogen-to-LED conversions for older systems.
Inland, many homes sit among tall pines and oaks. Trees make good subjects for uplighting, but dense cover also leaves long driveways and side doors very dark. That is where outdoor lighting comes in, with security lighting for entries and drives, commercial outdoor lighting for property grounds, and holiday lighting that we design, install, maintain, take down, and store.
Mosquitoes, ticks, and outdoor audio
Yards next to marsh, ponds, or bogs see mosquitoes, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health notes that ticks are most numerous in brushy, wooded, or grassy areas, a match for many lots here. Our mosquito and tick control service installs MistAway systems around the property, so the edges of the yard get treated without someone spraying by hand.
Rainfall is a certified installer of AmbiSonic and TruAudio luxury systems, and our outdoor audio installs place speakers and subwoofers so sound covers the spaces you actually use.
Why homeowners across the county call Rainfall
Rainfall has served irrigation customers since 1987 and has more than 1,500 customers across the South Shore, Cape and Islands, Boston, and MetroWest. The work is done by licensed technicians, and company leadership trained in turf management and irrigation at the UMass Stockbridge School of Agriculture.
We work for homeowners, property managers, condominium associations, commercial property owners, builders, and developers, from a single lawn to shared grounds.
I had a new sprinkler and dripline system installed and am very happy with the final result. Matt and his crew were friendly and great to work with. They made sure all my expectations were met and every question was answered.
Questions from Plymouth County homeowners
What homeowners in the county ask before they call.
Plymouth County is our home county, and our service radius reaches 50 miles from the Kingston office. If you are not sure your address is in range, call 781-679-1388.
Yes, and many Plymouth County systems do. The well's flow and pressure decide how many heads each zone can run, so the system is designed around what the well delivers. In Duxbury, town rules require new underground irrigation systems to connect to a private well rather than town water.
Homes close to the water in Hingham, Duxbury, Marshfield, Plymouth, and along Kingston Bay face salt air that is hard on exposed metal, wire connections, and transformers. Fixture materials and sealed connections matter more there than a few miles inland.
If your system runs on town water, yes. Each town sets its own rules, and they can tighten in a dry summer. A controller programmed to the local schedule, with a rain sensor, keeps the system within the rules without you resetting it by hand.
Tell us about your Plymouth County property
Let us know your town, whether you are on town water or a private well, and what you want to add or fix. We will call you back to talk through the next step.