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It was very tough but it's done! I went with PEX A and made a special barb that would hopefully be secure in the pipe but not expand it very much so we could pull it through the one inch poly. Here it is: At the house end I had to dig a lot to find the transition from the poly to 1 inch...

Thanks for the reply. Reasonably certain this is HDPE. I rented a high-end leak detector and listened all along the pipe path. I heard various rushing and rumbling sounds along with a repetitive but irregular timing "bonking" sound, quite loud. Kind of like bonking a plastic bottle on your head...

I've lived in my house since new, 1978. Several years ago I got a huge water bill from a leak in my supply line (140') with no surface indications at all. I know the path of the line and I rented an amplified stethoscope to look for the leak. I got close to it due to the sound of tinkling gravel...

Edit: I made a stupid mistake reading my meter, everything appears ok--