"How I Found An Underground Leak"

"How I Found An Underground Leak" FARM HOME Miscellaneous 27-2-11 "We have a 1/4-mile buried water line that developed a leak. Plumbers won't tell you how to find it, if they even know. All they want to do is dig. So I came up with my own solution," says Dick Smith, Adrian, Mo. "We have a yard hydrant between the house and the water meter. I first shut off the water at the house and at the meter. Then I hooked my air compressor up at the yard hydrant and let it run. In about an hour, I walked the line and you could hear the air and see water bubbling up to the surface of the ground, so I knew that's where the leak was. It was a cheap and easy way to find a leak without digging up the entire line." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Dick Smith, RR1, Box 238, Adrian, Mo. 64720.

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