High Water Bill Leak Investigation in East Port Orchard, WA

Locating in East Port Orchard

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 mid-size lots along Bethel Avenue, the same crew repairs it, and the write-up supports an adjustment request to West Sound Utility District.

Around Jackson Avenue the typical high water bill investigation call is a crawlspace wet after every storm; around Annapolis it's pressure dropping at the back of the house. Different symptoms, the same 1970s copper at fittings and till sloping toward Sinclair Inlet underneath.

East Port Orchard lots are older lots down toward Retsil, which sets how far we're listening along 1970s copper at fittings. 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 Jackson Avenue.

A high bill in East Port Orchard comes from West Sound Utility District, whose job ends at the meter. We quantify the loss there, isolate the house, check irrigation separately, and only then locate on early poly on Jackson Avenue lots under mid-size lots along Bethel Avenue.

Soil, pipe and sound in East Port Orchard

We start at the district meter, confirm the loss, trace the line, and pinpoint. We also handle the exterior drain side of things on these lots: footing drains that have silted up, downspout lines that have collapsed, and yard drainage that was never adequate on a sloped lot above the inlet.

Background noise near Jackson Avenue is part of high water bill investigation: traffic, pumps, a creek over clay seams near Retsil. Filters and patience get past it. Guessing from pressure dropping at the back of the house does not, which is how sloped lots above the inlet gets trenched for nothing.

What to expect

Before we show up near Annapolis you should know the sequence. We isolate the house. We locate, which on 1980s subdivision lots off Mile Hill is where subdivision backfill over hardpan sets the pace for pipe locator. We repair, and high water bill investigation is done.

1980s subdivision lots off Mile Hill over subdivision backfill over hardpan is a different high water bill investigation day than a flat lot in sand. We bring pipe locator, pressure gauges and isolation and the machine, and tell you up front whether copper pinholed under driveways is going to make it a long one near the Veterans Home.

The 1970s and 80s South Kitsap build-out left East Port Orchard with 1970s copper at fittings on older lots down toward Retsil. In till sloping toward Sinclair Inlet the first sign is a crawlspace wet after every storm, sometimes pressure dropping at the back of the house, rarely a puddle, which is why high water bill investigation starts by listening.

Where we work in East Port Orchard

Our high water bill investigation calls in East Port Orchard cover Annapolis, South Kitsap High, the Veterans Home and everything between. We're based in Central Kitsap, about twenty minutes across the inlet, and we answer 24 hours a day with pipe locator on board.