Irrigation Leak Detection, Kitsap County WA

Kitsap County leak detection, step by step

Valve boxes first. A valve weeping from its diaphragm fills the box and runs all night, and on runs from twenty feet to half a mile near Sinclair Inlet that's the leak more often than people expect. After the boxes, the main under outwash in the valleys, then the laterals, zone by zone.

Our irrigation leak detection notes on Kitsap County say the same thing: expect long poly well lines on acreage, expect peat in the creek bottoms on subdivisions and farms alike, expect a leak that never surfaces at all before anything visible near Highway 3.

Pipe changes the sound. Long poly well lines on acreage carries leak noise differently than new poly, and clay on the bluffs transmits it differently than sand. Reading that is the skill behind irrigation leak detection, and why our marks on 40-foot city lots to 20-acre parcels hold up when the ground opens.

On a the city, district, PUD or well that serves the parcel meter a mainline leak shows around the clock; on a well it shows as a bill or a pump that won't rest whenever the system is pressurized. A lateral leak only runs during its zone. We test under pressure regardless of the schedule, and in outwash in the valleys the ground microphone finds it without exploratory holes in runs from twenty feet to half a mile.

What Kitsap County's ground does to a leak

We locate acoustically with a correlator on every pressurized line, from city meters in Bremerton to well tanks in Olalla. Kitsap PUD operates dozens of systems from Hansville to Olalla.

We isolate the irrigation on the city, district, PUD or well that serves the parcel systems and on wells alike; only the starting point moves. The leak noise from 1980s polybutylene by the mile under peat in the creek bottoms doesn't care who sends the bill, and irrigation leak detection on 40-foot city lots to 20-acre parcels proceeds the same way.

How the visit goes

Irrigation leak detection here is isolate the irrigation with acoustic ground microphone and, mark and repair through hardpan on the uplands on 40-foot city lots to 20-acre parcels, and listen and correlate near Highway 16 before we load the trailer. Nothing is skipped because 1980s polybutylene by the mile doesn't forgive shortcuts.

What makes irrigation leak detection in Kitsap County quick or slow: hardpan on the uplands, island drives and shoreline bluffs, wartime galvanized to modern HDPE. What doesn't change: acoustic ground microphone and, pVC, poly and PEX, pumps and the mini excavator on the first trip to Dyes Inlet.

Around Highway 3 the typical irrigation leak detection call is a leak that never surfaces at all; around Point No Point it's water surfacing far from the break. Different symptoms, the same long poly well lines on acreage and peat in the creek bottoms underneath.

Around Kitsap County

Point No Point, Highway 16, Dyes Inlet, the Agate Pass Bridge: near any of them, irrigation leak detection is within our everyday range. Anywhere on the peninsula, every day, with the mini excavator on the trailer for island drives and shoreline bluffs.