Tracyton, WA

Tracyton runs along the east shore of Dyes Inlet between Silverdale and East Bremerton, and the waterfront side of it is a bluff with natural seeps and springs. That makes Tracyton one of the places where homeowners most often call us about a leak that turns out to be groundwater, and where other homeowners live for years with an actual service-line leak because the ground is wet anyway. Sorting out which is which is exactly what acoustic leak detection is for. Pressurized water escaping a pipe sounds different from a spring, and a correlator will find a leak on a pressurized line whether or not there is a wet spot.

Up on the plateau around Tracyton Boulevard, Riddell Road and Fairgrounds Road the ground is dense hardpan. Service lines from Silverdale Water District meters at the road are usually copper or polyethylene from the 1960s through the 1980s, and they tend to fail at fittings and at the house entry. Those are straightforward locates and usually a hand-dug repair.

On the sloped waterfront lots along Tracyton Beach Road the service line runs uphill from the meter, so a break anywhere along it sends water downhill, often into a neighbor's yard or onto the beach road. We trace the line uphill, pinpoint the break, and open the ground carefully so a repair on a slope doesn't become an erosion problem.

Tracyton is minutes from our base. Day or night, call 360 Leak Finders at (206) 354-9906 and we'll be on Tracyton Boulevard before the puddle gets bigger.

Leak detection in Tracyton

Tracyton is where we most often sort out groundwater from a real leak. The Dyes Inlet bluff seeps all winter, so a wet bank proves nothing; the correlator on a pressurized line is what proves a leak. On the plateau around Tracyton Boulevard and Riddell Road the locates are conventional and the breaks are usually at fittings.

Water line repair and replacement in Tracyton

Plateau repairs are copper and poly at fittings and foundation entries on 1960s to 80s homes. On the Tracyton Beach Road lots the line runs uphill from the meter and we manage the trench on the slope so a repair doesn't become erosion. Silverdale Water District serves most of it, which means a meter at the road and a quick handoff.

Exterior drains in Tracyton

The bluff lots along Tracyton Beach Road get groundwater from above and seeps from within, and footing drains, curtain drains and interceptor drains are how those crawlspaces stay dry. On the plateau it's the usual silted corrugated footing drains and downspout lines ending at the foundation.

Excavation in Tracyton

Dense hardpan on the plateau and clay with seeps on the bluff. We bring pumps for the bluff lots and the machine for the hardpan. Minutes from our base either way.