kitchen faucet pooling

good morning.

i have a hansa kitchen faucet. the kind you can pull out and spray etc. its pooling by the base...i cant tell where the waters is coming from? any ideas? is it shot?

tks peter

Hansa

Probably a Hansa Rondo, and the vacuum breaker inside the spout is leaking. They don't make a replacement vacuum breaker, but you get a brass plug to replace it. Getting the old one out can be challenging because it is at the rear where you cannot get to it. The easiest way is to take the cartridge out, (you probably should get a new one at the same time as the plug), and push the vacuum breaker out from the inside.