Yesterday, Larry Rabe installed this hose bib at the corner of the tennis court. I showed him where the old pipe was buried and he dug it up and tied into it. When we turned on the main supply valve, we found the line had no pressure. The idea was to use this to water the vegetation at this end of the property including the palm trees.
I remembered that Sean Ward was here and did some trenching and broke a water line. I pulled up my blog post from December 22, 2009. I could see there that Sean had breached the line just north of the sidewalk. He had capped it off and left the other end open. We rigged up a hose to pressurize the line and saw exactly where the break was. Larry Rabe dug this open and repaired the break and now we have water.
Part of our problem is that we have three generations of water lines on the property and this hole had all three exposed. We had a sprinkler head and line from the old wastewater treatment operation that we used. It also had a well water line and finally a fresh water line. What a mess. I'm sure we will run into this when we automate and expand the irrigation system that is being planned.