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

What usually causes well pump running constantly in Port Orchard

Start with 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. Around Bay Street and Bethel Road the housing dates from a century of building, from the 1900s waterfront to the newest subdivisions, which makes this the likeliest answer to well pump running constantly.

Then a waterlogged pressure tank. Rapid short-cycling, on and off every few seconds, means the tank has lost its air charge. We've seen it near Bethel Road more than once, usually on poly on the Bethel Road acreage.

And a failed check valve: lets water drain back down the well when the pump stops. Less common on long rural driveways toward Sunnyslope, but we've found it near Sedgwick Road.

First steps on a Port Orchard property

Port Orchard's steep downtown lots are where water surfaces farthest from the break; a leak at the top of a Bay Street hillside lot can show up at a retaining wall two houses down.

First steps for well pump running constantly near Sunnyslope: close the house main shutoff and see if the cycling continues. Walk the line's route for a green stripe or soft ground. Note the rhythm: slow steady cycling or rapid short-cycling. Then call; the rest is a locate through peat in the Long Lake bottoms, not guesswork.

How we fix it

When it's the buried line, the fix in Port Orchard is well line leak detection: we restore, locate acoustically through clay that moves on the Bay Street slopes at the marked spot on newer McCormick Woods lots with buried irrigation, and isolate the problem. Acoustic ground microphone and and the mini excavator ride on the first trip so it's finished the same visit.

Sedgwick Road, Sunnyslope, Mile Hill Drive: near any of them, well pump running constantly gets the same crew and the same equipment. A quick run across the Sinclair Inlet bridge, day or night, with the mini excavator on the trailer for 200-foot runs off Sedgwick Road.