Rollingbay: My Well Pump Won't Shut Off

Why this happens in Rollingbay

The most common cause we find in Rollingbay is 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. On long drives through second growth with clay that shifts rigid pipe underneath, that's where we look first.

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

Don't overlook a waterlogged pressure tank. Rapid short-cycling, on and off every few seconds, means the tank has lost its air charge. On Rollingbay properties from 1960s-to-1990s acreage homes and older beach cabins it comes up more than you'd think.

Before you call

Long private drives through second-growth forest and Bainbridge clay mean the correlator does the narrowing.

Before we arrive in Rollingbay, 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 restore faster on sloped waterfront on Murden Cove.

What happens next

Fixing well pump running constantly here usually ends with well line leak detection near Manitou Beach: restore with pipe locator, repair or replace on interior acreage off Sunrise Drive, locate acoustically. One crew, one visit, slopes above Rolling Bay put back the way it was.

We've handled well pump running constantly near Skiff Point where the cause was HDPE pulled through old routes, and near Murden Cove where till on the island interior was hiding a drain failure. About forty minutes via the Agate Pass Bridge; we schedule Rollingbay so you aren't waiting a whole day.