High water bill in Olalla, WA
A bill that jumps with no change in use almost always means water is leaving the system somewhere. Here's how to find out where.
"Why is my water bill suddenly so high" is a question we hear from Olalla every month, and the answer here usually involves galvanized on Colvos Passage cabins and outwash that drains and hides leaks. 360 Leak Finders is about forty minutes down Highway 16, and we diagnose high water bill before anything gets dug on pasture parcels off Olalla Valley Road.
The likely causes here
Start with 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. Around the Olalla Bridge and Banner Road the housing dates from 1970s-to-2000s farms and acreage homes, which makes this the likeliest answer to high water bill.
Then irrigation. A cracked mainline, a valve stuck open, or a drip zone that never shuts off can run a meter all night. We've seen it near Banner Road more than once, usually on 300-foot poly lines from well to farmhouse.
Finally, a running toilet. A flapper or fill valve that doesn't seat lets water run silently from tank to bowl. Worth five minutes before anyone digs hardpan on Banner Road.
What to check first
Olalla has almost no utility meters, so the locate starts at the well's pressure tank and the first job is proving the loss is in the buried line and not at the pump, check valve or tank.
First steps for high water bill near Fragaria: pull last year's bill for the same month and compare. Isolate irrigation at its own shutoff and re-test. Close the house main shutoff and watch again: still moving means the buried line. Then call; the rest is a locate through hardpan on Banner Road, not guesswork.
The fix in Olalla
When it's the buried line, the fix in Olalla is high water bill investigation: we repair, isolate the house through bluff clay on Colvos Passage at the marked spot on small farms near Burley, and report. Meter flow timing and and the mini excavator ride on the first trip so it's finished the same visit.
Olalla Valley Road, Fragaria, Olalla Bay: near any of them, high water bill gets the same crew and the same equipment. About forty minutes down Highway 16, day or night, with the mini excavator on the trailer for wooded acreage on Banner Road.
Ready when you are
One call, one crew, from the diagnosis to the restored yard. 360 Leak Finders, (206) 354-9906, for high water bill from Burley to Colvos Passage.
What we usually find
High water bill in Olalla: questions
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