Water Keeps Coming Up Through My Driveway (Port Orchard, WA)

What usually causes water in driveway in Port Orchard

The most common cause we find in Port Orchard 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 long rural driveways toward Sunnyslope with peat in the Long Lake bottoms underneath, that's where we look first.

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

And a natural seep on a cut driveway: a drive cut into a bluff or hillside intercepts groundwater. Less common on newer McCormick Woods lots with buried irrigation, but we've found it near Long Lake.

First steps on a Port Orchard property

Out on the Bethel and Sedgwick acreage the problem is length: 200- and 300-foot runs where the correlator is the only practical way to narrow the search.

Before we arrive in Port Orchard, three things you can do: do the meter test with the house isolated. Don't cut or dig at the wet spot. Keep vehicles off a sinking or soft area. None of it requires tools, and all of it helps us confirm there is a leak faster on newer McCormick Woods lots with buried irrigation.

How we fix it

Fixing water in driveway here usually ends with underground water leak detection near Retsil: confirm there is a leak with electronic acoustic ground microphone, listen on 200-foot runs off Sedgwick Road, correlate. One crew, one visit, outwash on the Sedgwick and Bethel flats put back the way it was.

We've handled water in driveway near Long Lake where the cause was galvanized and early copper downtown, and near Sunnyslope where clay that moves on the Bay Street slopes was hiding a drain failure. A quick run across the Sinclair Inlet bridge; we schedule Port Orchard so you aren't waiting a whole day.