Port Orchard: My Water Meter Is Moving With Everything Turned Off

Why this happens in Port Orchard

A fixture in the house: the indicator stops when the house shutoff is closed. In Port Orchard that usually means PEX at insert fittings in McCormick Woods near Sedgwick Road, and the ground, slick Kitsap Formation clay on the hillsides, 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 newer McCormick Woods lots with buried irrigation that we never skip it.

Don't overlook irrigation. The indicator stops when the irrigation is isolated. On Port Orchard properties from a century of building, from the 1900s waterfront to the newest subdivisions it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

Out on the Bethel and Sedgwick acreage the problem is length: 200- and 300-foot runs where the correlator is the only practical way to narrow the search.

What you can check yourself on 200-foot runs off Sedgwick Road: confirm nothing is running: toilets, ice maker, softener, irrigation, hoses. Time the meter over an hour to get gallons per hour. If you get that far, we'll pick it up from there with leak noise correlator and electronic acoustic ground microphone.

What happens next

In Port Orchard the work that follows the diagnosis is underground water leak detection, and it runs in order: trace the line, repair, if you want us to, listen. Poly on the Bethel Road acreage in peat in the Long Lake bottoms sets the pace on long rural driveways toward Sunnyslope; the sequence doesn't change.

Our Port Orchard coverage for meter moving with everything off runs McCormick Woods, Bay Street, Retsil, Bethel Road and everything between. We're based in Central Kitsap, a quick run across the Sinclair Inlet bridge, with leak noise correlator and pumps on the truck.