Lofall High Water Bill Leak Investigation

How we find leaks in Lofall

Plenty of Lofall 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 200- to 400-foot poly well lines in beach deposits below the bluff, the ground microphone and correlator find it.

1970s-to-2000s acreage homes and small farms left Lofall with brittle 1970s polyethylene on waterfront on Hood Canal. In hardpan a foot down on the uplands the first sign is pressure dropping at the barn, sometimes a power bill that climbs, rarely a puddle, which is why high water bill investigation starts by listening.

A Lofall locate ends with paint, flags and a plain answer about galvanized on canal-side cabins: dig here, this deep, this failure. If your own contractor digs, our high water bill investigation ends there. Most people on waterfront on Hood Canal want the same crew to report.

A Lofall meter that spins with everything closed and the house isolated is a buried-line leak, full stop. From there it's trace, listen over beach deposits below the bluff, correlate along small farms off Pioneer Way, mark, and dig once into 200- to 400-foot poly well lines.

What Lofall's ground does to a leak

Locates start at the pressure tank, we isolate the buried line from the pump and the house, and then it's a correlator across a 200- to 400-foot run through hardpan and a ground microphone at the correlated spot. On hardpan that is slow digging by hand and fast with a bucket, which is why we bring the machine on every Lofall call.

Acoustic ground microphone and and pipe locator are the tools; hardpan a foot down on the uplands and brittle 1970s polyethylene are the conditions. For high water bill investigation on waterfront on Hood Canal near the Hood Canal Bridge that pairing is the whole job before the first shovel.

How the visit goes

The order is fixed: check irrigation, locate, report. In Lofall the variables are roots and till along Pioneer Way and galvanized on canal-side cabins under acreage along Lofall Road, and we've handled both near Pioneer Way enough to give an honest window for high water bill investigation.

Scope for high water bill investigation here is three things: ground (roots and till along Pioneer Way), lot (acreage along Lofall Road), pipe (HDPE replacements pulled in one piece). 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 Highway 3.

Our high water bill investigation notes on Lofall say the same thing: expect brittle 1970s polyethylene, expect hardpan a foot down on the uplands on waterfront on Hood Canal, expect pressure dropping at the barn before anything visible near the Hood Canal Bridge.

Around Lofall

From Vinland to Pioneer Way and out around Highway 3 and Port Gamble, high water bill investigation is regular Lofall work. About half an hour north of Poulsbo; we schedule acreage along Lofall Road so you aren't waiting a whole day.