Indianola, WA

Indianola started as a 1920s summer colony served by a dock and a steamer, and the village still has the bones of one: small lots on narrow lanes, homes that have been remodeled four or five times, and water service lines that were installed by whoever was handy in whatever decade the cabin got its first indoor plumbing. Many lots are served through easements across a neighbor's property or by shared lines that nobody has a drawing of. When one of those leaks, the first question is not where the break is but where the pipe even runs.

We answer both. We trace the line with locating equipment, then run acoustic detection and a correlator along it to find the break. On a village lot that usually ends with a small hand-dug pit and a repair, and with the neighbor's garden untouched. On the bigger wooded parcels along Indianola Road and Miller Bay Road the runs are long and the mini excavator does the work.

The village sits on a bluff of till and clay above Port Madison. The clay holds water all winter, which means an actual leak can hide for months and a wet spot can be nothing more than the bluff draining. Acoustic detection sorts that out without guesswork, because escaping pressurized water has a sound that groundwater doesn't.

Kitsap PUD serves the village system and we work with them regularly on the handoff at the meter. For anything from the meter to your house, call 360 Leak Finders at (206) 354-9906, any hour of the day or night.

Leak detection in Indianola

Indianola's village lines run through easements and across neighbors' lots from the 1920s summer-colony days, and the first job is tracing where the pipe actually goes. The bluff clay holds water, so an acoustic locate on the pressurized line is the only reliable way to separate a leak from the bluff draining.

Water line repair and replacement in Indianola

Village repairs are hand-dug and careful, often next to a neighbor's garden on a shared line. We transition old galvanized and copper to PEX. On the wooded parcels along Indianola Road and Miller Bay Road it's longer poly runs and the mini excavator.

Exterior drains in Indianola

The bluff above Port Madison sends groundwater toward the village's older foundations all winter. Footing drains on the remodeled cabins are often missing or crushed, and downspout lines commonly end at the foundation. Interceptor drains above the house are the usual fix.

Excavation in Indianola

Narrow community lanes, shared lines, old cabins and bluff clay. Mostly hand work in the village; the machine on the outlying parcels.