Leaking Laundry Sink Tube

I noticed that a tube running from the back of the faucet into a hole in the ground is leaking (it's a very brittle small type of tube). My first thought is that this tube serves some sort of overflow purpose, but it is continuously draining warm water into the ground. I know this tube needs to be replaced (it has cracks on the sides where the water leaks), but is it normal for this tube to be constantly flowing warm water?, it seems like it's just going into a drain of some sort into the ground.

I'm not sure if there's a correlation, but my bathroom sink (upstairs) now has very low pressure, both hot and cold.

No clue...think you might want to do some digging and see what's going on.

Constantly, or when the water is turned on?

Hole in the ground, or drain?

Description sounds like possibly a trap primer.

I took a screwdriver and tightened up the faucets themselves and I think I made some sort of progress. At least now the water isn't constantly running through this tube and the gurgling noise appears to have stopped for the most part. Though, every 30 seconds or so it appears that the pressure builds up and a quick gurgle happens and some waters flows through the tube again. I'm very apprehensive about tightening the screws too much, but maybe I should. Perhaps, I need to get the faucets replaced - they are twenty years old or so.

TedL: When the faucets are turned on the water constantly flows through the tube which is running into a hole in the ground. When the faucets are off, I'm now just getting the gurgling as described above.

I checked the upstairs bathroom faucet and it could be my imagination, but the pressure does seem a little better.

Thanks

I did a search for 'trap primer' and that definitely seems what it is. I gather that it is normal for the water to flow through this tube when the taps are being used. I haven't read anywhere that this could be using some sort of pressure release mechanism, so I'll try and search for any other screws which may be loose in effort to eliminate the periodic gurgle.

Thanks for the info.

I think you're on the right track with the trap primer.

Do you have a floor drain in the area? Turn on the faucets and inspect (visually and audibally) for water running into the trap.