Bremerton High Water Bill Leak Investigation

How we find leaks in Bremerton

Plenty of Bremerton bill investigations end somewhere other than the service line: a toilet, a stuck irrigation valve, a cracked hose bib. We rule those out first. When it is the buried line, usually 1940s galvanized steel at the threads in cobbles packed in glacial till, the ground microphone and correlator find it.

A Bremerton owner near Jackson Park usually describes a damp crawlspace on the street side, and what we find after high water bill investigation is copper pinholed under East Bremerton driveways that met wet clay seams on the Narrows side under sloped lots above the Narrows.

Bremerton lots are sloped lots above the Narrows, which sets how far we're listening along copper pinholed under East Bremerton driveways. Short runs get the ground microphone; long ones get the correlator first. Either way, after we locate, the mark goes over the break with a depth near Rocky Point.

You leave with a plain written answer: how much water was leaving, where, and the fix. Indoors, we tell you and stop. The buried line on short service runs on the city grid, the same crew repairs it, and the write-up supports an adjustment request to the City of Bremerton.

What Bremerton's ground does to a leak

On the Charleston and Manette grids the City box can be buried under a sidewalk repour or a hedge planted in the 1970s, and on the hillside streets above Pacific Avenue the service line sometimes takes an unexpected route across a neighbor's lot from an easement nobody remembers. Eighty years later those lines are corroding from the inside, pinholing at the threads, and leaking into glacial till that holds water like a bowl.

Background noise near Rocky Point is part of high water bill investigation: traffic, pumps, a creek over gray hardpan a foot down. Filters and patience get past it. Guessing from a City bill that doubles with no reason does not, which is how longer runs toward Kitsap Lake and Rocky Point gets trenched for nothing.

How the visit goes

A high water bill investigation visit to Bremerton runs: meter test, then locate, then report. The middle step is where thin topsoil over compacted till and longer runs toward Kitsap Lake and Rocky Point set the pace, and acoustic ground microphone and is what gets it done near Jackson Park.

Scope for high water bill investigation here is three things: ground (thin topsoil over compacted till), lot (narrow Charleston and Manette grid lots), pipe (early poly on the Kitsap Lake lots). The gear is the same each trip, acoustic ground microphone and included, and we say which of the three is driving the day before we start near Illahee.

We've seen a damp crawlspace on the street side on sloped lots above the Narrows near Rocky Point and a City bill that doubles with no reason by Jackson Park. Both times the line was copper pinholed under East Bremerton driveways, the ground was wet clay seams on the Narrows side, and the fix was high water bill investigation done once.

Around Bremerton

From Jackson Park to Sheridan Park and out around Illahee and Manette, high water bill investigation is regular Bremerton work. A few minutes from our base; we schedule narrow Charleston and Manette grid lots so you aren't waiting a whole day.