So I finally have a rather big update.... many smaller ones I need to post. Anyway last month our water bill was about 10,000 gallons higher than normal. I went under the house and was unable to find a large leak. The other day though I saw water coming up through the grass and running down the curb... and it finally wasn't raining for once.

And because of this I finally searched out the water meter that I couldn't find... wound up being under a lot of grass... that doesn't look good :(

Opened the cover and started pumping out water.

To find water was filling the meter box from the left side(closer to the house). I reached my hand through the hole created by the water and felt some pipes near the box and dug it up which made the water come out faster.

Finally got the water meter shut off and fund the elbow here cracked... Whoever put it in did not use primer on the pipe and used the cheapest, thinnest walled PVC :(

Luckily Lowe's was still open and I got some slip fittings and new pipe and an elbow and was able to glue it back together.

Although it was late at night, I had to bring this light out to work... anyone that drove by was going really slow to try and see what I was doing digging around in my yard :P

I wound up buying quite a bit of bottled water in case we couldn't use the water for a day or two but luckily when I turned it on the next day everything worked as normal. Just made sure I turned an outside faucet on first to make sure any dirt that got in the line was flushed out before going through the screens in the sink or the water heater.

Unfortunately I did find a small water leak under the home, it was leaking slow enough that the water was evaporating before dripping and calcium deposits were forming on the pipe. This means more time under the house... but hopefully more posts soon :P