Sinkhole or sunken spot in Enetai, WA

The likely causes here

The most common cause we find in Enetai is a leaking water service line washing out the trench. The most common cause on a sunken trench line. On flat plateau lots on Perry Avenue with steep till lots facing Bainbridge underneath, that's where we look first.

We also check poorly compacted backfill from an earlier dig, because in Enetai it explains a real share of sinkhole or sunken spot calls. A trench that was dumped full and never compacted settles for years.

Finally, an old dry well, cesspool or septic component. Older properties have forgotten structures that eventually cave. Worth five minutes before anyone digs bluff clay above Port Orchard Bay.

What to check first

Enetai's bluff lots along Enetai Beach Road and Trenton Avenue surface water at seeps and retaining walls far below the break, and the plateau lots around Perry Avenue and Pine Road surface it near fittings.

Before we arrive in Enetai, three things you can do: don't fill it until the cause is known. Note whether it appeared after rain or in dry weather. Do the meter test. None of it requires tools, and all of it helps us repair, if you want us to faster on waterfront on Enetai Beach Road.

The fix in Enetai

Fixing sinkhole or sunken spot here usually ends with underground water leak detection near Trenton Avenue: repair, if you want us to with pipe and cable locator, confirm and mark on conventional East Bremerton lots, trace the line. One crew, one visit, hardpan on the Perry Avenue plateau put back the way it was.

We've handled sinkhole or sunken spot near Perry Avenue where the cause was mid-century copper at fittings, and near Enetai Beach where seeps on the Enetai Beach Road slopes was hiding a drain failure. A few minutes away in East Bremerton; we schedule Enetai so you aren't waiting a whole day.