Rollingbay, WA

Rolling Bay is the northeast corner of Bainbridge Island, around the old store and the post office, out to Manitou Beach, Murden Cove and Skiff Point. It is outside the City's Winslow water service area, so homes here are on small community water systems, Kitsap PUD-operated systems or private wells. On a community system one home's leaking service line can drop pressure for every house sharing the main, and the neighbors usually notice before the homeowner does. On a well the only sign is a pump that never rests.

The ground is Bainbridge clay, which swells and shrinks with the seasons and shifts rigid pipe at every joint. Service lines here often run several hundred feet from a shared meter vault at the road down a private drive through second-growth forest. We trace the line, locate the break acoustically with a correlator across the run, and open the ground only at the break. On a long Rolling Bay driveway that is the difference between one excavation and a torn-up quarter mile of gravel.

Along Manitou Beach and the Rolling Bay waterfront the older cabins have shorter, older lines, copper and galvanized, that fail at fittings and foundation entries. Those are hand-dug repairs once we've pinpointed them. On the slopes above Murden Cove we work carefully with spoils and ground protection so a water line repair doesn't become a slope problem.

We come across the Agate Pass Bridge from the Kitsap side, not on the ferry from Seattle. Call 360 Leak Finders at (206) 354-9906, 24 hours a day.

Leak detection in Rollingbay

Rolling Bay is on community systems and wells, so a locate may start at a shared meter vault, an individual meter or a pressure tank. Long private drives through second-growth forest and Bainbridge clay mean the correlator does the narrowing. On a shared main we can usually identify which service tap is the problem before anyone digs.

Water line repair and replacement in Rollingbay

Continuous HDPE replacements on long driveway runs, often pulled through the old route from a pit at each end so the drive stays intact. Manitou Beach and Rolling Bay cabin lines are shorter copper and galvanized hand repairs.

Exterior drains in Rollingbay

Clay slopes above Murden Cove and Rolling Bay that hold water and move. Footing drains and curtain drains with gravity outlets are routine; dry wells don't work in this ground.

Excavation in Rollingbay

Island clay, long drives, septic systems to work around, and slopes above the water. We come across the Agate Pass Bridge with the machine.