My Water Meter Is Moving With Everything Turned Off (Bremerton, WA)

What usually causes meter moving with everything off in Bremerton

Start with a buried service line leak. The indicator keeps moving with the house isolated and irrigation isolated. Around Manette and Kitsap Lake the housing dates from the shipyard boom of the 1940s, which makes this the likeliest answer to meter moving with everything off.

Then a fixture in the house. The indicator stops when the house shutoff is closed. We've seen it near Kitsap Lake more than once, usually on early poly on the Kitsap Lake lots.

And irrigation: the indicator stops when the irrigation is isolated. Less common on longer runs toward Kitsap Lake and Rocky Point, but we've found it near Pacific Avenue.

First steps on a Bremerton property

On the Charleston and Manette grids the City box can be buried under a sidewalk repour or a hedge planted in the 1970s, and on the hillside streets above Pacific Avenue the service line sometimes takes an unexpected route across a neighbor's lot from an easement nobody remembers.

First steps for meter moving with everything off near Charleston: time the meter over an hour to get gallons per hour. Confirm nothing is running: toilets, ice maker, softener, irrigation, hoses. Close the house main shutoff and watch again. Then call; the rest is a locate through wet clay seams on the Narrows side, not guesswork.

How we fix it

When it's the buried line, the fix in Bremerton is underground water leak detection: we correlate, listen through gray hardpan a foot down at the marked spot on narrow Charleston and Manette grid lots, and confirm and mark. Pressure gauges and isolation and the mini excavator ride on the first trip so it's finished the same visit.

Pacific Avenue, Charleston, Rocky Point: near any of them, meter moving with everything off gets the same crew and the same equipment. A few minutes from our base, day or night, with the mini excavator on the trailer for sloped lots above the Narrows.