Enetai: My Water Meter Is Moving With Everything Turned Off

Why this happens in Enetai

Start with a buried service line leak. The indicator keeps moving with the house isolated and irrigation isolated. Around Illahee State Park and Port Orchard Bay the housing dates from 1950s-to-1970s ranch and split-level homes, which makes this the likeliest answer to meter moving with everything off.

Then irrigation. The indicator stops when the irrigation is isolated. We've seen it near Port Orchard Bay more than once, usually on galvanized on a few waterfront cottages.

Don't overlook a fixture in the house. The indicator stops when the house shutoff is closed. On Enetai properties from 1950s-to-1970s ranch and split-level homes it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

Both are City of Bremerton meters at the street, and both get a traced line and an acoustic pinpoint before any digging.

First steps for meter moving with everything off near Perry Avenue: 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 steep till lots facing Bainbridge, not guesswork.

What happens next

When it's the buried line, the fix in Enetai is underground water leak detection: we trace the line, correlate through bluff clay above Port Orchard Bay at the marked spot on sloped lots on Trenton Avenue, and repair, if you want us to. Leak noise correlator and the mini excavator ride on the first trip so it's finished the same visit.

Sheridan Park, Perry Avenue, Trenton Avenue: near any of them, meter moving with everything off gets the same crew and the same equipment. A few minutes away in East Bremerton, day or night, with the mini excavator on the trailer for flat plateau lots on Perry Avenue.