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

What usually causes soggy lawn spot in Rollingbay

Start with 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. Around Bay Hay and Feed and Valley Road the housing dates from 1960s-to-1990s acreage homes and older beach cabins, which makes this the likeliest answer to soggy lawn spot.

Then an irrigation leak. A cracked lateral or a weeping valve wets the ground on watering days. We've seen it near Valley Road more than once, usually on lines under shared drives.

And a natural seep or perched water: common on bluff and hillside lots. Less common on long drives through second growth, but we've found it near Fay Bainbridge Park.

First steps on a Rollingbay property

On a shared main we can usually identify which service tap is the problem before anyone digs.

First steps for soggy lawn spot near Murden Cove: note whether the spot is wet in dry weather or only after rain. Don't dig at the spot. Do the meter test with everything closed, then with the house isolated. Then call; the rest is a locate through clay that shifts rigid pipe, not guesswork.

How we fix it

When it's the buried line, the fix in Rollingbay is underground water leak detection: we correlate, trace the line through till on the island interior at the marked spot on sloped waterfront on Murden Cove, and confirm and mark. Pressure gauges and isolation and the mini excavator ride on the first trip so it's finished the same visit.

Fay Bainbridge Park, Murden Cove, Sunrise Drive: near any of them, soggy lawn spot gets the same crew and the same equipment. About forty minutes via the Agate Pass Bridge, day or night, with the mini excavator on the trailer for interior acreage off Sunrise Drive.