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

["Bill Robinson" <bilrob@silcom.com>]

First question: how do you know there is a leak and how are you quantifying
the leak?
Bill Robinson
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From: <deumling@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
To: <GreenBuilding@crest.org>
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Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:05 AM
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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