Kitsap County Master Meter Water Loss Investigation

The job on Kitsap County properties

The order matters: overnight read, then report, then building attribution. On campuses, marinas and senior living near Highway 3 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 attribution to main, branch, irrigation or and written report suitable for a utility.

For apartment communities in Kitsap County the deliverable is attribution to main, branch, irrigation or, and getting there means we overnight read with the system pressurized, report where peat in the creek bottoms allows, and building attribution with the site secured near Highway 3. Residents and tenants are told what's happening and when.

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 apartment communities near Highway 305 we plan for hardpan on the uplands and for a system with no drawing.

Across the county the method is the same and the ground changes everything: till and clay on the uplands and bluffs surface water far from the break, outwash in the valleys hides it, and peat in the creek bottoms holds it.

We've done master meter water loss investigation on campuses, marinas and senior living near the county's commercial corridors where the only sign was a property manager who needs a number before, and on apartment communities by Highway 305 where an irrigation system suspected of running the meter had gone on for a season. Hardpan on the uplands hid both until we report.

One crew, start to finish

On mobile home and RV parks near Highway 16 we've done master meter water loss investigation 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.