RE: [GBlist] finding a leak in a water line?

["Chris Webb" <chris@2020engineering.com>]

My seat of the pants answer would be to try the following in this order:

1. look for more lush vegetation in one spot or another, like "greener
grass"
2. call a dowser to dowse the line if it is really long
3. dig up spots near sand stone outcrops
4. dig up spots where cars have driven over the line
5. Get some lemonade and a shovel and dig up the whole thing.

--Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: deumling@socrates.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:deumling@socrates.Berkeley.EDU] 
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:06 AM
To: GreenBuilding@crest.org
Cc: pollicino@igc.org
Subject: [GBlist] finding a leak in a water line?


We're losing approximately 100 gallons/day between our well/pressure
tanks and the house.  The water line is your basic 1" (or thereabouts)
PVC buried underground over sandstone.  I am mystified that this
quantity hasn't showed up in some for at the surface.  We suspect the
leak has existed for more than a month, maybe two.

Any tips on how to troubleshoot (and ideally fix) this, without digging
up the whole line?

Thanks.

Reuben Deumling


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