It is a good thing you are skilled in fixing things otherwise you would have to hire someone to fix it and paying a large amount of fee. I think for those kind of problems you should alert the water company and have their people look at it. It happened to us too there was a leak because of the vehicles that would accidentaly lean over the pipe. Luckily it was a line before the meter or valve that is why the leak did not affect our bill. Still the leak is starting to get bothersome to clean and makes our pavement muddy. I am glad you were able to fix your problem.