Port Townsend New Water Service Line Installation

New Water Service Line Installation in Port Townsend: what to expect

A new home, an ADU, a shop, a far hydrant: in Port Townsend it's the same trench-and-lay we use on replacements, on a clean slate. We coordinate the meter side with the City of Port Townsend and work around a builder's schedule on sites near Water Street and Hastings Avenue.

We've seen pressure that has faded for decades on waterfront near Point Hudson near Fort Worden and water under a century-old sidewalk by Cape George. Both times the line was poly on the Cape George parcels, the ground was outwash sand under the historic districts, and the fix was new water service installation done once.

Restoration is part of new water service installation near Fort Worden and everywhere else on waterfront near Point Hudson: lawn regraded, gravel raked, beds rebuilt, pavers reset over outwash sand under the historic districts. When we leave, the only evidence is that the water works.

On mid-century grid lots on Sheridan Street the route is most of the job. Short and clear beats threading past a drainfield and under a pad. We walk it with you, then deal with sandy bluffs above the Strait with the machine, and size the pipe for the demand at the far end, not the nearest.

Pipe and soil in Port Townsend

Hand-dug transitions from 1920s to 50s galvanized to PEX next to brick and stone foundations in the historic districts, with the garden left as we found it. The mid-century neighborhoods around Hastings Avenue and Sheridan Street, and the larger parcels toward Cape George and Discovery Bay, are more conventional: copper and polyethylene lines on sandy outwash that drains well and hides leaks, with the occasional clay seam that holds water and surfaces it far from the break.

Lots here are waterfront near Point Hudson, and the run from the meter is the owner's. The City of Port Townsend's responsibility ends at the meter. That private line through till toward Discovery Bay is exactly what new water service installation covers, from where we plan the route to where we trench.

What happens on site

Plan the route comes first; test and backfill follows, and on acreage toward Cape George with clay seams in the uplands it's usually the longest part; trench finishes. That's new water service installation from Cape George to Point Hudson, with buried-rated brass and stainless on hand throughout.

Scope for new water service installation here is three things: ground (clay seams in the uplands), lot (small Victorian lots in Uptown), pipe (century-old lines with unknown routes). The gear is the same each trip, sleeves for driveway and included, and we say which of the three is driving the day before we start near Kah Tai Lagoon.

A Port Townsend owner near Cape George usually describes pressure that has faded for decades, and what we find after new water service installation is poly on the Cape George parcels that met outwash sand under the historic districts under waterfront near Point Hudson.

Around Port Townsend

From Cape George to Point Hudson and out around Kah Tai Lagoon and Sheridan Street, new water service installation is regular Port Townsend work. A dedicated trip across the Hood Canal Bridge; we schedule small Victorian lots in Uptown so you aren't waiting a whole day.