Water in driveway in Olalla, WA

The likely causes here

The most common cause we find in Olalla is the service line runs under the drive. Common on Bainbridge, Kingston and acreage lots where the drive is the straight shot from road to house. On waterfront on Colvos Passage with outwash that drains and hides leaks underneath, that's where we look first.

We also check a crushed drain line under the drive, because in Olalla it explains a real share of water in driveway calls. Downspout and yard drain lines crushed by vehicles discharge into the base.

Finally, a natural seep on a cut driveway. A drive cut into a bluff or hillside intercepts groundwater. Worth five minutes before anyone digs hardpan on Banner Road.

What to check first

Outwash that drains hides the leak; peat in the Olalla Creek valley holds it.

Before we arrive in Olalla, three things you can do: don't cut or dig at the wet spot. Keep vehicles off a sinking or soft area. Do the meter test with the house isolated. None of it requires tools, and all of it helps us confirm and mark faster on pasture parcels off Olalla Valley Road.

The fix in Olalla

Fixing water in driveway here usually ends with underground water leak detection near the Olalla Bridge: confirm and mark with leak noise correlator, repair, if you want us to on wooded acreage on Banner Road, correlate. One crew, one visit, peat in the Olalla Creek valley put back the way it was.

We've handled water in driveway near Olalla Bay where the cause was 1970s and 80s polyethylene gone brittle, and near Fragaria where bluff clay on Colvos Passage was hiding a drain failure. About forty minutes down Highway 16; we schedule Olalla so you aren't waiting a whole day.