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Peach Brothers Septic Contractors Heading Towards a 70-year Anniversary

Sep 15, 2022 03:51PM ● By Steve Sears

: Peach Brothers Septic Contractors is a family business since 1954

When you talk with Tom Peach, President of Peach Brothers Septic Contractors, he shows true pride in his business.

Peach Brothers Septic Contractors is a third-generation commercial and residential business. “We do everything you do in septics. We do pumping, we do installations, inspections, repairs, anything to do with septics,” Peach says. “That’s all we do. We have a great reputation, and we’re very busy.” Peach Brothers Septic Contractors has clients in Morris, Sussex, and Warren counties, and also occasionally travels into Hunterdon and Somerset counties. “We do a lot of work in Randolph, Mendham, Harding Township, Long Valley, and Mount Olive.” The company also employs proper procedures to meet New Jersey state code and local health department requirements. “And we're so busy,” Peach adds. “Our reputation gets us our work. We can’t even do all the work that we get.” Fully insured, Peach Brothers Septic Contractors also does engineering and soil testing, topographic surveys for all septic systems, and offers free estimates.

A Peach Brothers Septic Contractors truck at work

 “My dad (Granville) started in 1954,” Peach says. “He had come home from Korea, and his two brothers (Bernard and Jerome) were digging cesspools. He got going with them, and they ended up buying some old machinery and started with cesspools. His two brothers eventually got out of it, and my dad kept the septic business. I came to work for him right out of high school - the next day, right after graduation.” Although now by his dad’s side full-time in the septic business, he had already been working for him during the summers of his teen years, and at 18-years-old could handle a dump truck rather handily. His brother joined them a few years later. “We’ve been together since, and I have two of my sons, TJ and Tyler, who work for me, and my brother Bob is Vice-President, and his son, my nephew Ryan, also works for me.” Tom and Bob’s sister, Tina, is the office manager. “She runs the office with her daughter, and she does a great job,” Peach says. 

And then there’s pride in his family. Tom Peach was a Morris Catholic High School of Denville (he was a member of four consecutive state champion boy’s Cross Country teams) student, but all of his children went to Mount Olive High School. If in the Mount Olive area, or walking the hallways of one of its schools as a student or teacher, chances are good you’ve run into, befriended, or educated one of the Peach siblings. “I have seven children, and all seven of my children went to Mount Olive High School. My last one is going to be a senior starting in September. She'll be the last of the seven, and they’ve all graduated from Mount Olive,” Peach says proudly. “Me and my wife, Valerie, figured it out. Once my last one graduates, we will have had one or more kids consecutively in the Mount Olive school system for 33 years. My oldest son, he’s 37, and the youngest, she’s 17. I have four girls and three boys. Three of my four daughters have been cheerleaders – my youngest is a captain this year for the cheerleading squad - and my oldest daughter is a teacher in Mount Olive. My sons played ice hockey, and I coached ice hockey in the Mount Olive recreation league for 15 years myself.” He then adds with a laugh, “I told somebody I know so many people at the school and have been hooked into the school system so long, I’d like a brick or something.”

The Peach family has lived on the Budd Lake side of Mount Olive for 38 years.

Peach Brothers Septic Contractors gives back to the local communities as often as they can. With his offices and shop located in Roxbury, Peach is a member of the Rotary Club of Roxbury, and gives back many ways through that organization. Also, for a recent house building project for Habitat for Humanity in Landing, Peach donated time and machinery to clear the lot and dug the foundation, readying it for the structure’s flooring. Peach says, “Habitat for Humanity, they estimated I saved them about $25,000.”

Tom Peach is 65 this month, and has mildly considered retirement. “Just a little,” he says. “But not yet. I’m hoping to do another five years or so.” He then adds, “I don't know what I’d do with myself. My guys work five days a week, but I always would do stuff on Saturday myself.”

For more information about Peach Brothers Septic Contractors, visit their website at www.peachbrothers.com or call 1 (800) 427-4543.