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

What usually causes sinkhole or sunken spot in Seabeck

Start with an old dry well, cesspool or septic component. Older properties have forgotten structures that eventually cave. Around Big Beef Creek and Seabeck Highway the housing dates from 1960s-to-2000s acreage homes and old waterfront cabins, which makes this the likeliest answer to sinkhole or sunken spot.

Then a collapsed or separated drain line. Old clay tile or crushed corrugated pipe lets water wash soil into the pipe and away. We've seen it near Seabeck Highway more than once, usually on long poly well lines through forest.

And a leaking water service line washing out the trench: the most common cause on a sunken trench line. Less common on acreage off Holly Road, but we've found it near the conference center.

First steps on a Seabeck property

Seabeck's boulder-studded hardpan and long wooded well runs make it the place where locating pays for itself most clearly.

First steps for sinkhole or sunken spot near Holly Road: do the meter test. Keep everyone off it and mark it. Note whether it appeared after rain or in dry weather. Then call; the rest is a locate through bluff clay on the canal, not guesswork.

How we fix it

When it's the buried line, the fix in Seabeck is underground water leak detection: we confirm and mark, repair, if you want us to through hardpan with heavy roots at the marked spot on waterfront on Hood Canal, and trace the line. Pressure gauges and isolation and the mini excavator ride on the first trip so it's finished the same visit.

the conference center, Holly Road, Stavis Bay: near any of them, sinkhole or sunken spot gets the same crew and the same equipment. About twenty-five minutes out Seabeck Highway, day or night, with the mini excavator on the trailer for forest parcels along Seabeck Highway.