High water bill in Keyport, WA

The likely causes here

In Keyport we check irrigation before anything else, because a shared-system complaint from the whole street is how it shows up here. A cracked mainline, a valve stuck open, or a drip zone that never shuts off can run a meter all night. Beach deposits at Virginia Point makes the signs misleading, so we confirm rather than assume.

Next: a leak on the buried service line. Galvanized steel from the 1940s, copper from the 60s and 70s, polybutylene from the 80s, brittle early polyethylene: all of it fails eventually, and in Kitsap's till and outwash it can leak for months with no wet spot. With damp shoreline ground on Liberty Bay under short runs on the peninsula grid, the symptoms can look identical to the first cause, which is why the meter test and the locate matter.

Finally, seasonal use you forgot. Compare to the same month last year, not last month. Worth five minutes before anyone digs a clay layer under the village shelf.

What to check first

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.

Do this before anyone digs a clay layer under the village shelf in Keyport: close every fixture and watch the meter's low-flow indicator for two minutes. Isolate irrigation at its own shutoff and re-test. It takes minutes and it tells us whether the problem is on larger parcels along Keyport Road or inside the house.

The fix in Keyport

The repair side is high water bill investigation. On shoreline lots at Virginia Point that means meter test, then report in till on the Keyport Road approaches where the problem actually is, then check irrigation. If what we expose is poly on the Brownsville Highway parcels at the end of its life, we say so with the pipe in your hand.

From Brownsville Highway to Virginia Point and out around the marina, high water bill is a regular Keyport call for us. Ten minutes up Brownsville Highway, and emergencies on short runs on the peninsula grid dispatch immediately, any hour.