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

What usually causes meter moving with everything off in Lofall

Start with a buried service line leak. The indicator keeps moving with the house isolated and irrigation isolated. Around Lofall Road and Hood Canal the housing dates from 1970s-to-2000s acreage homes and small farms, 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 Hood Canal more than once, usually on brittle 1970s polyethylene.

And a fixture in the house: the indicator stops when the house shutoff is closed. Less common on parcels along Highway 3, but we've found it near Kitsap Memorial State Park.

First steps on a Lofall property

Locates start at the pressure tank, we isolate the buried line from the pump and the house, and then it's a correlator across a 200- to 400-foot run through hardpan and a ground microphone at the correlated spot.

First steps for meter moving with everything off near Pioneer Way: close the house main shutoff and watch again. Confirm nothing is running: toilets, ice maker, softener, irrigation, hoses. Time the meter over an hour to get gallons per hour. Then call; the rest is a locate through bluff clay on the Hood Canal shore, not guesswork.

How we fix it

When it's the buried line, the fix in Lofall is underground water leak detection: we correlate, repair, if you want us to through hardpan a foot down on the uplands at the marked spot on acreage along Lofall Road, and listen. Pipe and cable locator and the mini excavator ride on the first trip so it's finished the same visit.

Kitsap Memorial State Park, Pioneer Way, Vinland: near any of them, meter moving with everything off gets the same crew and the same equipment. About half an hour north of Poulsbo, day or night, with the mini excavator on the trailer for waterfront on Hood Canal.