Leak Detection in Eagle Creek

Eagle Creek is the oldest part of the Northern Range, built from the late 1990s on. It sits just north of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal refuge, and its plumbing has had more winters than anything else north of 96th Avenue. Leak detection in Eagle Creek looks first where that age shows: joints, valves, the water heater connection and the sprinkler backflow device. Its duplexes add one more step, a reading from both sides of the shared wall before anyone decides whose plumbing is wet. Being nearest the old city does not put Eagle Creek on the old city's setup: it lies north of 96th Avenue, so the second, irrigation meter applies here as it does in Reunion, and both get read first.

Water where it should not be has three usual sources here: a supply pipe under pressure, a drain line, or groundwater pushed through a foundation by wet clay. They look alike on a carpet. A meter reading, a closed shutoff and the timing of the water tell them apart before any equipment leaves the truck.

• Joints and valves checked before any long run
• Sprinkler backflow device inspected for winter damage
• Duplex walls read from both sides
• Two meters read, as on most homes north of 96th

The Northern Range's oldest plumbing.

1. 1

   Call and say what you are seeing

   Where the water is, when it appears, and whether it follows rain, a shower or nothing at all. That alone often separates supply, drain and ground.

2. 2

   Read the meters with us on the phone

   Everything off, then the low-flow indicator; north of 96th Avenue, both meters. A moving indicator books the visit.

3. 3

   We isolate first, then listen and scan

   Shutoffs split the house, the buried line and the sprinklers before a ground microphone, thermal camera or pressure test comes out.

4. 4

   You get the spot and the source in writing

   The location marked, what found it, and whether the cause is supply, drain or ground. The repair is a separate written quote.