Well I am happy to report that the water is still working at our house! This is a good thing. On a side note I replaced the kitchen faucet (the cold water was not working well, just a trickle. We assumed it was a piece of dirt/gravel in the cold water valve of the faucet). This did not fix the problem. Now the faucet is much better looking and we have a spray nozzle, but there is not very much cold water. On a plus note, the faucet is much better so it is possible to adjust the water to a tolerable temperature. So now we believe the blockage is in the shutoff valve to the kitchen sink. This is a plumber problem. Since I am going to have to get the plumber for the utility sink I will just add this to the list for him.
On the supply line issues we were all wrong about where the pipe was actually located. We thought the pipe went in a straight line between the two houses. It did not. If you look down this telephone poll to the far right corner of our house you will be looking at the pipe path we had told the repairmen. Yes, we were way off. The pipe ends on the far left side. The trench across the bottom of the screen was dug in an attempt to find the pipe. There are three different trenches across the bottom of the picture.
Here is the view from our house. The second leak ended up being near the bottom of this picture. Our front yard is pretty torn up from all the trenches and digging in the last three years. I definitely need to finish replacing the plumbing line and then rip up the entire yard and start over. Not going to happen this year. It is looking like fence building and replacing the front bridge are going to become the priority for Summer.
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