Everett J. Prescott, Inc. was founded in 1955 in Gardiner, Maine. As the first waterworks distributor north of Massachusetts, we offered water-main tapping and installation, and underground boring.
The 1960's proved to be a decade of development, improvement and expansion for EJP. We introduced the first factory-direct trucking business for cast iron pipe in New England and expanded our fleet of trucks and our product line.
The 1970's brought tremendous growth, EJP's first two branches--in Concord, New Hampshire, and Montpelier, Vermont--were opened. In 1978, EJP started another business, Quality Water Products (QWP) in South Barre, Massachusetts.
Growth continued throughout the 1980's, with the opening of six new branches and the creation of two companies, PEP Transportation and Meter Backflow Services (MBS). In addition to locations in Massachusetts and Connecticut, branches were opened in Indiana.
The early 1990's brought further expansion, with additional branches opening in Maine, Indiana, Ohio and Massachusetts.