Pearson Companies

Pearson Companies is based on Fruit Street in Byfield and says it has served the area since 1980. The company presents itself as a broad site-services business: excavation, septic pumping and installation, containers, land clearing, demolition-waste removal, and a hardware store and landscaping-supply operation. It says it is licensed, bonded, and insured, and lists Byfield, Amesbury, Boxford, Georgetown, Haverhill, Ipswich, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Rowley, Salisbury, and West Newbury among its service towns. The clearest recent customer account is a March 2026 review from Ipswich, where a homeowner praised a last-minute Title V inspection and pump as professional, quick, and reasonably priced. Older reviews also praise the hardware-store staff, a yard-waste drop-off, friendly service, reasonable prices, and hard work. The written record is small and mixed: a December 2024 reviewer wrote only that the service and products were awful, while a September 2023 reviewer criticized an encounter with a Pearson landscaping-truck driver. Before booking, ask which Pearson operation will handle the job and confirm the exact scope, since the company spans septic, excavation, containers, supplies, and landscaping-related work. For septic work, clarify the inspection or pumping deliverables and timing; for excavation or land clearing, get the site-work scope and waste handling in writing. The company may be a useful fit when one project combines several of those services, but the recent positive account concerns septic work rather than landscaping itself. Pearson is worth considering for North Shore property work where excavation, septic, container, or yard-waste needs overlap. Confirm the estimate, crew, and service details before work begins, and treat the isolated service and driving complaints as questions to raise rather than a complete picture of current operations.