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

What usually causes meter moving with everything off in Indianola

Irrigation: the indicator stops when the irrigation is isolated. In Indianola that usually means lines run across neighbors on easements near the beach, and the ground, a sandy beach shelf below the village, decides how far the water travels before you see it.

The second thing we rule in or out is a fixture in the house. The indicator stops when the house shutoff is closed. It's common enough on bluff lots facing Port Madison that we never skip it.

And a hose bib or outbuilding line: a shop, barn or hydrant branch that tees off before the house shutoff. Less common on wooded parcels along Miller Bay Road, but we've found it near Miller Bay Road.

First steps on a Indianola property

The bluff clay holds water, so an acoustic locate on the pressurized line is the only reliable way to separate a leak from the bluff draining.

What you can check yourself on wooded parcels along Miller Bay Road: confirm nothing is running: toilets, ice maker, softener, irrigation, hoses. Isolate irrigation and any outbuilding branches. If you get that far, we'll pick it up from there with pressure gauges and isolation and leak noise correlator.

How we fix it

In Indianola the work that follows the diagnosis is underground water leak detection, and it runs in order: trace the line, correlate, listen. Galvanized under much-remodeled cabins in till on the Indianola Road parcels sets the pace on narrow village lanes near the dock; the sequence doesn't change.

Our Indianola coverage for meter moving with everything off runs Miller Bay Road, the Indianola Dock, the Country Store, the Clubhouse and everything between. We're based in Central Kitsap, about half an hour off Miller Bay Road, with pressure gauges and isolation and pumps on the truck.