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

What usually causes soggy lawn spot in Kingston

The most common cause we find in Kingston is a service line leak surfacing downhill. The pressurized line between the meter and the house has failed, and the water has followed the trench or the hardpan to the nearest low spot. On long gravel driveways through fir with roots and the odd boulder off Miller Bay Road underneath, that's where we look first.

We also check a failed drain line, because in Kingston it explains a real share of soggy lawn spot calls. A crushed downspout or yard drain line discharging into the lawn instead of its outlet.

And a natural seep or perched water: common on bluff and hillside lots. Less common on ferry-town lots near Highway 104, but we've found it near the ferry terminal.

First steps on a Kingston property

Near the ferry terminal the lots are small and the lines are old.

Before we arrive in Kingston, three things you can do: note whether the spot is wet in dry weather or only after rain. Note whether the spot is downhill of the meter-to-house line's route. Don't dig at the spot. None of it requires tools, and all of it helps us listen faster on ferry-town lots near Highway 104.

How we fix it

Fixing soggy lawn spot here usually ends with underground water leak detection near Highway 104: listen with pressure gauges and isolation, confirm and mark on wooded acreage along South Kingston Road, confirm there is a leak. One crew, one visit, outwash near Appletree Cove put back the way it was.

We've handled soggy lawn spot near the ferry terminal where the cause was copper and galvanized near the terminal, and near White Horse where beach deposits along the cove was hiding a drain failure. Up Highway 3 and across on 104; we schedule Kingston so you aren't waiting a whole day.