Meter moving with everything off in Keyport, WA

The likely causes here

The most common cause we find in Keyport is a fixture in the house. The indicator stops when the house shutoff is closed. On short runs on the peninsula grid with till on the Keyport Road approaches underneath, that's where we look first.

We also check a hose bib or outbuilding line, because in Keyport it explains a real share of meter moving with everything off calls. A shop, barn or hydrant branch that tees off before the house shutoff.

Finally, a buried service line leak. The indicator keeps moving with the house isolated and irrigation isolated. Worth five minutes before anyone digs beach deposits at Virginia Point.

What to check first

The shoreline clay keeps the ground damp enough that nobody notices a wet spot, so the first sign is pressure or a bill.

Before we arrive in Keyport, three things you can do: close the house main shutoff and watch again. Time the meter over an hour to get gallons per hour. Isolate irrigation and any outbuilding branches. None of it requires tools, and all of it helps us trace the line faster on larger parcels along Keyport Road.

The fix in Keyport

Fixing meter moving with everything off here usually ends with underground water leak detection near Keyport Road: trace the line with pipe and cable locator, listen on small, tightly packed village lots, correlate. One crew, one visit, a clay layer under the village shelf put back the way it was.

We've handled meter moving with everything off near Port Orchard Bay where the cause was copper from the Navy station's later decades, and near the Naval Undersea Museum where damp shoreline ground on Liberty Bay was hiding a drain failure. Ten minutes up Brownsville Highway; we schedule Keyport so you aren't waiting a whole day.