Kitsap County Commercial Water Line Rough-In

The job on Kitsap County properties

The order matters: service connection, then rough-in, then permit. On apartment communities near Highway 16 the second step is the long one, because peat in the creek bottoms and the length of the private system set the pace. The result is isolation valves at branches and exterior service connection where required.

A restaurant, clinic, salon or other fixture-heavy occupancy is the other common trigger on apartment communities. We service connection, which on a Kitsap County site through peat in the creek bottoms usually takes an overnight visit, then rough-in and permit. The owner ends up with exterior service connection where required they didn't have before.

What's under Kitsap County's larger sites

What we know about Kitsap County's larger properties: across the county the private water systems behind master meters are mostly 1970s-to-1990s installs reaching end of life together, on a patchwork of city, district, PUD and tribal utilities whose responsibility ends at the meter. On retail centers and office buildings near Highway 305 we plan for clay on the bluffs and for a system with no drawing.

Every pipe material of the last century is in the ground somewhere in Kitsap, and we transition all of them to PEX or HDPE with buried-rated fittings.

Campuses, marinas and senior living and mobile home and RV parks in Kitsap County share the same vulnerability: a private system in clay on the bluffs with no drawing and a master meter that only reports totals. Commercial water line rough-in turns that into as-built routing and a located problem near the ferry terminals.

One crew, start to finish

On mobile home and RV parks near the county's commercial corridors we've done commercial water line rough-in after hours with the site taped and lit, pumps running, and residents told what to expect. Anywhere on the peninsula, every day, and the report with photos goes to the board or owner the next morning, along with a candid note about the rest of the system under outwash in the valleys.