diff --git a/asterixdb/pom.xml b/asterixdb/pom.xml
index 5c2d7c8..37be3dc 100644
--- a/asterixdb/pom.xml
+++ b/asterixdb/pom.xml
@@ -590,49 +590,9 @@
         <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
         <checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>
       </snapshots>
+      <!-- TODO (mblow): copy rome dependency & update this to third-party -->
       <id>asterix-public</id>
-      <url>http://obelix.ics.uci.edu/nexus/content/groups/asterix-public/</url>
-    </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-        <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
-        <checksumPolicy>warn</checksumPolicy>
-      </releases>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-        <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
-        <checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>
-      </snapshots>
-      <id>third-party</id>
-      <url>http://obelix.ics.uci.edu/nexus/content/repositories/third-party/</url>
-    </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <releases>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-        <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
-        <checksumPolicy>warn</checksumPolicy>
-      </releases>
-      <id>algebricks-releases</id>
-      <url>http://obelix.ics.uci.edu/nexus/content/repositories/algebricks-releases/</url>
-    </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-        <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
-        <checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>
-      </snapshots>
-      <id>algebricks-snapshots</id>
-      <url>http://obelix.ics.uci.edu/nexus/content/repositories/algebricks-snapshots/</url>
-    </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <snapshots>
-        <enabled>true</enabled>
-        <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
-        <checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>
-      </snapshots>
-      <id>apache-staging</id>
-      <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheasterix-1019/</url>
+      <url>http://obelix.ics.uci.edu/nexus/content/repositories/asterix-public/</url>
     </repository>
   </repositories>
   <dependencyManagement>
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/pom.xml
index e0b12dd..4a85156 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/pom.xml
@@ -478,31 +478,6 @@
     </profile>
   </profiles>
 
-  <repositories>
-    <repository>
-      <id>maven-central</id>
-      <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/</url>
-    </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <id>hyracks-public</id>
-      <url>http://obelix.ics.uci.edu/nexus/content/groups/hyracks-public/</url>
-    </repository>
-    <repository>
-      <id>jboss-public</id>
-      <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
-    </repository>
-  </repositories>
-
-  <pluginRepositories>
-    <pluginRepository>
-      <id>hyracks-public</id>
-      <url>http://obelix.ics.uci.edu/nexus/content/groups/hyracks-public/</url>
-      <releases>
-        <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
-      </releases>
-    </pluginRepository>
-  </pluginRepositories>
-
   <modules>
     <module>hyracks</module>
     <module>algebricks</module>