A Hole or Sunken Spot Opened Up in My Yard (Bremerton, WA)

What usually causes sinkhole or sunken spot in Bremerton

The most common cause we find in Bremerton is a leaking water service line washing out the trench. The most common cause on a sunken trench line. On longer runs toward Kitsap Lake and Rocky Point with cobbles packed in glacial till underneath, that's where we look first.

We also check an old dry well, cesspool or septic component, because in Bremerton it explains a real share of sinkhole or sunken spot calls. Older properties have forgotten structures that eventually cave.

And poorly compacted backfill from an earlier dig: a trench that was dumped full and never compacted settles for years. Less common on narrow Charleston and Manette grid lots, but we've found it near Sheridan Park.

First steps on a Bremerton property

In Bremerton the locate often starts with finding the meter at all.

Before we arrive in Bremerton, three things you can do: do the meter test. Note whether it appeared after rain or in dry weather. Don't fill it until the cause is known. None of it requires tools, and all of it helps us confirm and mark faster on narrow Charleston and Manette grid lots.

How we fix it

Fixing sinkhole or sunken spot here usually ends with underground water leak detection near Manette: confirm and mark with leak noise correlator, trace the line on sloped lots above the Narrows, repair, if you want us to. One crew, one visit, thin topsoil over compacted till put back the way it was.

We've handled sinkhole or sunken spot near Sheridan Park where the cause was 1940s galvanized steel at the threads, and near Jackson Park where gray hardpan a foot down was hiding a drain failure. A few minutes from our base; we schedule Bremerton so you aren't waiting a whole day.