There's a Soggy, Green Patch in My Lawn That Won't Dry Out (Keyport, WA)

What usually causes soggy lawn spot in Keyport

An irrigation leak: a cracked lateral or a weeping valve wets the ground on watering days. In Keyport that usually means short runs failing at foundation entries near Virginia Point, and the ground, till on the Keyport Road approaches, decides how far the water travels before you see it.

The second thing we rule in or out is a natural seep or perched water. Common on bluff and hillside lots. It's common enough on larger parcels along Keyport Road that we never skip it.

And a failed drain line: a crushed downspout or yard drain line discharging into the lawn instead of its outlet. Less common on shoreline lots at Virginia Point, but we've found it near the Naval Undersea Museum.

First steps on a Keyport property

Keyport's village lots are small and the lines are old, so leaks are usually at a galvanized thread or a foundation entry within a few feet of the house, and a careful listen along the short run finds them fast.

What you can check yourself on shoreline lots at Virginia Point: do the meter test with everything closed, then with the house isolated. Don't dig at the spot. If you get that far, we'll pick it up from there with electronic acoustic ground microphone and pipe and cable locator.

How we fix it

In Keyport the work that follows the diagnosis is underground water leak detection, and it runs in order: confirm and mark, listen, repair, if you want us to. Poly on the Brownsville Highway parcels in damp shoreline ground on Liberty Bay sets the pace on short runs on the peninsula grid; the sequence doesn't change.

Our Keyport coverage for soggy lawn spot runs the Naval Undersea Museum, Brownsville Highway, Liberty Bay, Port Orchard Bay and everything between. We're based in Central Kitsap, ten minutes up Brownsville Highway, with electronic acoustic ground microphone and pumps on the truck.