Serving East Bridgewater, MA
Patios, pool decks, driveways and fire features for East Bridgewater homes, in a town where every lot is on septic and a fifth of the land is water or wetland.
East Bridgewater has no town sewer at all. Every home treats its wastewater on its own lot, in the tight glacial soils common around Brockton. About a fifth of the town is wetland or open water, including the Satucket and Matfield rivers and 124-acre Robbins Pond. Those two facts decide where almost anything can be built in a backyard here.
CJ Pickering Enterprises is two towns away in South Easton. We build patios, pool decks, paver driveways and fire pits and seating walls in East Bridgewater, and pave asphalt for homes and for businesses along Route 18.
In East Bridgewater the Conservation Commission reviews every building permit filed in town. Its reach is 100 feet from a wetland, 200 feet from the bank of a stream and any land that floods in a 100-year storm.
The town’s wetland bylaw does offer a shortcut. Staff can issue a quick administrative permit, without a public hearing, for low-impact structures such as decks and above-ground pools built on existing lawn more than 25 feet from a wetland.
The general bylaws require every outdoor residential pool to be fully enclosed at all times, filled or not, by a fence or wall at least five feet high. Gates have to close and latch themselves, with the latch at least four feet off the ground.
That is a foot taller than the usual rule. If a pool is in your plans, lay out the fence line with the deck so the gates land where you will use them.
Public Works issues the road opening permit and signs off on driveway entrances. The bylaws say a driveway or walkway should be built on a downgrade from the property line to the edge of the road where possible, and anything else needs the Director’s written approval.
The town also says it is not responsible for plow damage to aprons, walls or fences that extend into the road layout. We keep the apron flush and the edges firm so there is nothing for a plow to catch.
With no sewer anywhere in town, each yard has a tank and a leaching field, and in slow soils the field can be large. Zoning keeps a detached accessory building 10 feet from the house and from the side and rear lot lines.
Between the septic system, those setbacks and any wetland buffer, the buildable part of a backyard is often smaller than it looks. A site visit with the septic plan in hand settles it quickly. Permits are filed through the Building Department.
Town rules change. We last checked these against East Bridgewater’s own pages in October 2026, so confirm with the town before you build.
North Easton, MAA North Easton backyard pairs a covered kitchen and bar with a paver lounge patio, raised planting beds, and a circular fire-pit area at the lawn’s edge.
Easton, MAIn this Easton backyard, CJ Pickering built the paver pool deck around the pool and raised spillover spa, a fire-pit patio, a retaining wall, and stepping-stone paths through the lawn.
Taunton, MAA Taunton waterfront hillside steps down from a paver driveway to the home through terraced retaining walls, long stair runs, and paved landings framed by lawn and stone.
Five feet. The town’s general bylaws require a fence or wall at least five feet high around every outdoor residential pool, with self-closing, self-latching gates and the latch at least four feet above the ground. The pool has to stay enclosed even when it is empty.
Sometimes. East Bridgewater’s wetland bylaw lets Conservation staff issue an administrative permit, with no hearing, for low-impact structures on existing lawn more than 25 feet from a wetland. A patio or pool deck may need the fuller review, so ask the Commission first.
Not everywhere. The town’s Watershed Protection District, which protects its drinking water wells, bans sodium chloride in snow removal. If your property is in that district, ice has to be treated another way.
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