Underground Irrigation Main Repair in Sebastopol

Most homeowners don't realize they have a leak until the water bill spikes or a patch of yard stays soggy no matter how dry it gets. By then, the damage underground has usually been going on for a while. That's exactly the kind of problem we dug into on this Sebastopol job.

The issue was a failed underground irrigation main - a pressurized line that feeds the whole system. When these go, they don't always announce themselves in an obvious way. Sometimes it's low pressure at the heads. Sometimes it's a wet spot that never quite dries out. Either way, the fix requires getting into the ground, finding the break, and rebuilding that section of pipe the right way.

We excavated down to the damaged section and cut out the compromised pipe. You can see the old PVC sitting alongside the open trench - cracked and separated right at a fitting. That's a pretty common failure point. Ground movement, age, and pressure fluctuations all take a toll on those joints over time. We swapped in new schedule 40 PVC with proper fittings and a shutoff valve for easy access going forward.

The repair itself is clean and solid. New pipe, new elbow, properly solvent-welded connections. Once backfilled and pressure-tested, this line will hold. The homeowner gets their irrigation system back without the wasted water - and without watching their bill climb month after month from a leak they couldn't see.

We serve Sebastopol, Santa Rosa, and the surrounding Sonoma County area for exactly this kind of work. Underground leak repair and trenching is one of our core specialties, and we move fast on these calls because the longer a pressurized leak runs, the more it costs you.