Fire Service Main Leak Detection for Port Townsend Properties

How it works on a Port Townsend site

Fire service main leak detection near Water Street typically produces three things: written report with photos for owner, excavation and backfill at the repair, and traced route of the underground fire. To get them we trace at historic downtown commercial buildings, mark and report through till toward Discovery Bay, and correlate and pinpoint before the site is handed back.

When due diligence on an older system before a at marinas and waterfront industry at Point Hudson and the boat haven, the job is the same shape every time: trace, mark and report, correlate and pinpoint. What changes in Port Townsend is the ground, till toward Discovery Bay, and the access across Water Street. What doesn't change is that nothing gets dug until it's located.

What's under Port Townsend's larger sites

Port Townsend's commercial stock runs from 1880s downtown buildings with century-old lines to the marina and boatyard facilities on fill at the water, all on the City's gravity system from the Quilcene. Around Point Hudson the fire service main leak detection work we do most often is on historic downtown commercial buildings, and outwash sand under the historic districts decides how the excavation goes.

On the Cape George and Discovery Bay parcels the runs are long and the correlator narrows them.

We've done fire service main leak detection on multi-family along the Sheridan corridor near Fort Worden where the only sign was a wet area or settling along the fire, and on historic downtown commercial buildings by Point Hudson where a failed hydrostatic test with no visible cause had gone on for a season. Outwash sand under the historic districts hid both until we mark and report.

One crew, start to finish

On senior living and medical facilities near the boat haven we've done fire service main leak detection after hours with the site taped and lit, pumps running, and residents told what to expect. A dedicated trip across the Hood Canal Bridge, 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 sandy bluffs above the Strait.