Kingston: My Water Meter Is Moving With Everything Turned Off

Why this happens in Kingston

Irrigation: the indicator stops when the irrigation is isolated. In Kingston that usually means brittle well lines on Indianola Road parcels near White Horse, and the ground, roots and the odd boulder off Miller Bay Road, decides how far the water travels before you see it.

The second thing we rule in or out is a hose bib or outbuilding line. A shop, barn or hydrant branch that tees off before the house shutoff. It's common enough on shoreline lots on Miller Bay that we never skip it.

Don't overlook a fixture in the house. The indicator stops when the house shutoff is closed. On Kingston properties from 1970s-to-1990s acreage with a newer core near the ferry it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

A correlator across the run and a ground microphone at the correlated spot is how those get found.

What you can check yourself on wooded acreage along South Kingston 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 leak noise correlator and probe rods and marking.

What happens next

In Kingston the work that follows the diagnosis is underground water leak detection, and it runs in order: trace the line, confirm and mark, correlate. Copper and galvanized near the terminal in hardpan saturated from November to May sets the pace on long gravel driveways through fir; the sequence doesn't change.

Our Kingston coverage for meter moving with everything off runs Appletree Cove, the ferry terminal, Lindvog Road, Miller Bay Road and everything between. We're based in Central Kitsap, up Highway 3 and across on 104, with leak noise correlator and pumps on the truck.