Silverdale: Water Keeps Coming Up Through My Driveway

Why this happens in Silverdale

The most common cause we find in Silverdale 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 Ridgetop and Island Lake cul-de-sacs with a winter water table close to the surface underneath, that's where we look first.

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

Don't overlook a natural seep on a cut driveway. A drive cut into a bluff or hillside intercepts groundwater. 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: 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 correlate faster on acreage out Anderson Hill Road.

What happens next

Fixing water in driveway here usually ends with underground water leak detection near Ridgetop: correlate with pressure gauges and isolation, repair, if you want us to on 60- to 120-foot subdivision runs, confirm there is a leak. One crew, one visit, trench walls that slough near Dyes Inlet put back the way it was.

We've handled water in driveway near Bucklin Hill where the cause was post-mall subdivision poly, 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.