Rollingbay: A Water Line Burst and Water Is Everywhere

Why this happens in Rollingbay

Start with damage from digging. A fence post, a tree stake, a landscaper's shovel, an excavator that didn't have the private line marked. Around Rolling Bay and Sunrise Drive the housing dates from 1960s-to-1990s acreage homes and older beach cabins, which makes this the likeliest answer to water line burst.

Then a freeze. A shallow or exposed line that froze and split, leaking when it thawed. We've seen it near Sunrise Drive more than once, usually on copper and galvanized on Manitou Beach cabins.

Don't overlook old pipe that finally gave out. Galvanized at a thread, polybutylene split along its length, brittle poly at a rock. On Rollingbay properties from 1960s-to-1990s acreage homes and older beach cabins it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

Continuous HDPE replacements on long driveway runs, often pulled through the old route from a pit at each end so the drive stays intact.

First steps for water line burst near Bay Hay and Feed: shut off the water: house main, meter valve, or well breaker. Keep everyone off the wet ground. Don't dig. Then call; the rest is a locate through clay that shifts rigid pipe, not guesswork.

What happens next

When it's the buried line, the fix in Rollingbay is emergency water line repair: we excavate, repair and restore water through slopes above Rolling Bay at the marked spot on interior acreage off Sunrise Drive, and locate the break. Mini excavator on the and the mini excavator ride on the first trip so it's finished the same visit.

Fay Bainbridge Park, Bay Hay and Feed, Valley Road: near any of them, water line burst gets the same crew and the same equipment. About forty minutes via the Agate Pass Bridge, day or night, with the mini excavator on the trailer for sloped waterfront on Murden Cove.