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

What usually causes soggy lawn spot in Manchester

A natural seep or perched water: common on bluff and hillside lots. In Manchester that usually means 1940s galvanized on beach homes near the fuel depot, and the ground, fill and beach deposits on Colchester Drive, decides how far the water travels before you see it.

The second thing we rule in or out is a failed drain line. A crushed downspout or yard drain line discharging into the lawn instead of its outlet. It's common enough on the village near the state park that we never skip it.

And an irrigation leak: a cracked lateral or a weeping valve wets the ground on watering days. Less common on rural parcels along Colby Road, but we've found it near Rich Passage.

First steps on a Manchester property

Manchester's Beach Drive and Colchester Drive lots have the meter at the road and the house downhill at the water, so every leak drains toward the beach and surfaces far from the break.

What you can check yourself on rural parcels along Colby Road: 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 probe rods and marking.

How we fix it

In Manchester the work that follows the diagnosis is underground water leak detection, and it runs in order: confirm there is a leak, correlate, confirm and mark. Poly on the Colby Road parcels in clay seams and seeps on Beach Drive sets the pace on Colchester Drive waterfront; the sequence doesn't change.

Our Manchester coverage for soggy lawn spot runs Rich Passage, Manchester State Park, Colchester Drive, Beach Drive and everything between. We're based in Central Kitsap, down Mile Hill Drive from Port Orchard, with electronic acoustic ground microphone and pumps on the truck.