Marinas & Waterfront Facilities

Marinas, yacht clubs, boat launches and waterfront commercial facilities around Bremerton, Port Orchard, Poulsbo, Kingston, Bainbridge and Port Townsend have water lines that run along bulkheads, under parking areas built on fill, and out to docks, through ground that's saturated by the tide twice a day. A leak here never shows as a wet spot because everything is wet. The sign is the meter, or a pressure drop at the far end of a dock, and the locate has to work in ground where water is the default.

Acoustic detection doesn't care that the ground is wet; it listens for pressurized water escaping the pipe, which sounds different from groundwater and tide. We trace the line along the bulkhead or the dock approach, correlate between access points, and pinpoint. Excavation on fill near a shoreline is done carefully with the bank and any environmental setbacks in mind, with spoils contained and the surface restored. For a facility with a line that has failed before, a continuous HDPE replacement on a documented route is the long-term answer.

What usually goes wrong, and what we do about it