Fire Service Main Leak Detection in Bremerton, WA

Fire Service Main Leak Detection in Bremerton, step by step

For downtown retail on Pacific Avenue in Bremerton the deliverable is written report with photos for owner, and getting there means we trace with the system pressurized, coordinate where cobbles packed in glacial till allows, and mark and report with the site secured near Pacific Avenue. Residents and tenants are told what's happening and when.

When a failed hydrostatic test with no visible cause at shipyard-era apartment blocks, the job is the same shape every time: trace, coordinate, mark and report. What changes in Bremerton is the ground, cobbles packed in glacial till, and the access across Pacific Avenue. What doesn't change is that nothing gets dug until it's located.

What's under Bremerton's larger sites

Bremerton's multi-family stock runs from wartime apartment blocks with galvanized mains to 1980s condo complexes on the East Bremerton hills with thin-wall poly between buildings, and the City of Bremerton master meters sit at the street. For fire service main leak detection that means starting at the master meter, tracing before digging, and expecting gray hardpan a foot down under downtown retail on Pacific Avenue.

On the Charleston and Manette grids the City box can be buried under a sidewalk repour or a hedge planted in the 1970s, and on the hillside streets above Pacific Avenue the service line sometimes takes an unexpected route across a neighbor's lot from an easement nobody remembers.

We've done fire service main leak detection on medical and office buildings near the ferry near Wheaton Way where the only sign was a wet area or settling along the fire, and on downtown retail on Pacific Avenue by East Bremerton where a jockey pump running more often than it had gone on for a season. Gray hardpan a foot down hid both until we coordinate.

One crew, start to finish

Managers of apartment communities along Kitsap Way in Bremerton use us for fire service main leak detection because one crew does the locate, the excavation in wet clay seams on the Narrows side, the repair and the restoration, and because we answer at night. A few minutes from our base, so an emergency near Kitsap Way doesn't wait for a crew from across the Sound.