Well pump running constantly in Lofall, WA

The likely causes here

In Lofall we check a leak inside the house before anything else, because a power bill that climbs is how it shows up here. Cycling stops when the house shutoff is closed. Beach deposits below the bluff makes the signs misleading, so we confirm rather than assume.

Next: 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. With roots and till along Pioneer Way under acreage along Lofall Road, the symptoms can look identical to the first cause, which is why the meter test and the locate matter.

Finally, a failed check valve. Lets water drain back down the well when the pump stops. Worth five minutes before anyone digs hardpan a foot down on the uplands.

What to check first

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.

Do this before anyone digs hardpan a foot down on the uplands in Lofall: close the valve after the pressure tank and watch the gauge. Close the house main shutoff and see if the cycling continues. It takes minutes and it tells us whether the problem is on small farms off Pioneer Way or inside the house.

The fix in Lofall

The repair side is well line leak detection. On parcels along Highway 3 that means restore, then locate acoustically in bluff clay on the Hood Canal shore where the problem actually is, then isolate the problem. If what we expose is HDPE replacements pulled in one piece at the end of its life, we say so with the pipe in your hand.

From the Hood Canal Bridge to Pioneer Way and out around Kitsap Memorial State Park, well pump running constantly is a regular Lofall call for us. About half an hour north of Poulsbo, and emergencies on acreage along Lofall Road dispatch immediately, any hour.