Silverdale: There's a Soggy, Green Patch in My Lawn That Won't Dry Out

Why this happens in Silverdale

The most common cause we find in Silverdale 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 acreage out Anderson Hill Road with a winter water table close to the surface underneath, that's where we look first.

We also check a natural seep or perched water, because in Silverdale it explains a real share of soggy lawn spot calls. Common on bluff and hillside lots.

Don't overlook a failed drain line. A crushed downspout or yard drain line discharging into the lawn instead of its outlet. On Silverdale properties from the subdivision boom after the Kitsap Mall opened it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

In the outwash near Old Town and Clear Creek the sound carries well but the water never surfaces, so the correlator is what finds it.

Before we arrive in Silverdale, three things you can do: note whether the spot is wet in dry weather or only after rain. Don't dig at the spot. Note whether the spot is downhill of the meter-to-house line's route. None of it requires tools, and all of it helps us confirm there is a leak faster on tight side yards full of irrigation.

What happens next

Fixing soggy lawn spot here usually ends with underground water leak detection near the Kitsap Mall: confirm there is a leak with electronic acoustic ground microphone, repair, if you want us to on 60- to 120-foot subdivision runs, confirm and mark. One crew, one visit, trench walls that slough near Dyes Inlet put back the way it was.

We've handled soggy lawn spot near Ridgetop where the cause was gray polybutylene from the 1980s, and near Anderson Hill Road where dense hardpan up on Ridgetop was hiding a drain failure. Our home base; we schedule Silverdale so you aren't waiting a whole day.