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In my experience these things leak for two major reasons.
1) the rubber stopper goes bad and leaks out the drain-hole underground.
2) the hydrant wasn't installed properly with a concrete support, some hack just buried it in the ground and it got kicked over and broke at the fitting connection underground.
So I usually dig it up to see if its broken or not and then go from there. Any tips on servicing these that you guys have?
1) the rubber stopper goes bad and leaks out the drain-hole underground.
2) the hydrant wasn't installed properly with a concrete support, some hack just buried it in the ground and it got kicked over and broke at the fitting connection underground.
So I usually dig it up to see if its broken or not and then go from there. Any tips on servicing these that you guys have?