My Well Pump Won't Shut Off (East Port Orchard, WA)

What usually causes well pump running constantly in East Port Orchard

The most common cause we find in East Port Orchard is a waterlogged pressure tank. Rapid short-cycling, on and off every few seconds, means the tank has lost its air charge. On older lots down toward Retsil with hardpan on the Mile Hill plateau underneath, that's where we look first.

We also check a leak inside the house, because in East Port Orchard it explains a real share of well pump running constantly calls. Cycling stops when the house shutoff is closed.

And a leak on the buried line: long poly well lines go brittle and split, often at a rock pressing on the pipe or a bend. Less common on mid-size lots along Bethel Avenue, but we've found it near Retsil.

First steps on a East Port Orchard property

We start at the district meter, confirm the loss, trace the line, and pinpoint.

Before we arrive in East Port Orchard, three things you can do: close the house main shutoff and see if the cycling continues. Close the valve after the pressure tank and watch the gauge. Walk the line's route for a green stripe or soft ground. None of it requires tools, and all of it helps us excavate at the break faster on mid-size lots along Bethel Avenue.

How we fix it

Fixing well pump running constantly here usually ends with well line leak detection near Annapolis: excavate at the break with hDPE and PEX with, isolate the problem on sloped lots above the inlet, repair or replace. One crew, one visit, subdivision backfill over hardpan put back the way it was.

We've handled well pump running constantly near Retsil where the cause was copper pinholed under driveways, and near Bethel Avenue where till sloping toward Sinclair Inlet was hiding a drain failure. About twenty minutes across the inlet; we schedule East Port Orchard so you aren't waiting a whole day.