Silverdale Irrigation Leak Detection

How we find leaks in Silverdale

On a Silverdale Water District meter a mainline leak shows around the clock; on a well it shows as a district bill that jumps a tier whenever the system is pressurized. A lateral leak only runs during its zone. We test under pressure regardless of the schedule, and in trench walls that slough near Dyes Inlet the ground microphone finds it without exploratory holes in 60- to 120-foot subdivision runs.

The subdivision boom after the Kitsap Mall opened left Silverdale with post-mall subdivision poly on tight side yards full of irrigation. In a winter water table close to the surface the first sign is a split poly line with no warning, sometimes pressure that drops when the sprinklers run, rarely a puddle, which is why irrigation leak detection starts by listening.

Pipe changes the sound. Post-mall subdivision poly carries leak noise differently than new poly, and loose outwash on the Clear Creek flats transmits it differently than sand. Reading that is the skill behind irrigation leak detection, and why our marks on acreage out Anderson Hill Road hold up when the ground opens.

A district bill that jumps a tier every watering day on 60- to 120-foot subdivision runs usually means a lateral split under trench walls that slough near Dyes Inlet, often at a head a mower caught. We run the zone, walk it with the ground microphone, and fix it where it is.

What Silverdale's ground does to a leak

Silverdale is polybutylene country. We handle the entire job ourselves: pinpoint the leak, open the ground, replace the failed section or the whole run in PEX or HDPE, bed the new pipe in clean gravel, backfill, compact and put your lawn or beds back.

We listen and correlate on Silverdale Water District systems and on wells alike; only the starting point moves. The leak noise from gray polybutylene from the 1980s under a winter water table close to the surface doesn't care who sends the bill, and irrigation leak detection on acreage out Anderson Hill Road proceeds the same way.

How the visit goes

Irrigation leak detection here is listen and correlate with acoustic ground microphone and, trace the system through dense hardpan up on Ridgetop on acreage out Anderson Hill Road, and isolate the irrigation near Bucklin Hill before we load the trailer. Nothing is skipped because gray polybutylene from the 1980s doesn't forgive shortcuts.

Scope for irrigation leak detection here is three things: ground (dense hardpan up on Ridgetop), lot (Ridgetop and Island Lake cul-de-sacs), pipe (first-generation polyethylene that has gone brittle). 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 Ridgetop.

Around Clear Creek the typical irrigation leak detection call is a split poly line with no warning; around Silverdale Way it's pressure that drops when the sprinklers run. Different symptoms, the same post-mall subdivision poly and a winter water table close to the surface underneath.

Around Silverdale

From Silverdale Way to Bucklin Hill and out around Ridgetop and the Kitsap Mall, irrigation leak detection is regular Silverdale work. Our home base; we schedule Ridgetop and Island Lake cul-de-sacs so you aren't waiting a whole day.