California · PWS CA4210006B

Lompoc

What Lompoc filed with DWR about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2020–2025 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2025
71.7%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csvSheet1 AN3931

Where this figure comes from

(system input − billed authorized) ÷ system input × 100

  • system input volume 2.79 sheet Sheet1, cell AN3931 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • billed authorized consumption 0.79 sheet Sheet1, cell AQ3931 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet

From data/archive/ca-dwr-water-loss/2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csv (SHA-256 f0dfea5a6026881d), retrieved 2026-09-05 from the published source.

Recoverable annually
$244
Apparent loss is valued at this utility's own reported retail price of water. Real loss is NOT included — DWR publishes a variable production cost whose unit it does not declare, so no dollar figure is put on the leaked water. The real recoverable total is higher than this by an amount this filing does not let anyone state.

2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csvSheet1 DH3931

Where this figure comes from

cost of apparent losses + cost of real losses, both as computed in the filed audit

  • cost of apparent losses, as filed 244.3 sheet Sheet1, cell DH3931

From data/archive/ca-dwr-water-loss/2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csv (SHA-256 f0dfea5a6026881d), retrieved 2026-09-05 from the published source.

Balance check
inapplicable
DWR derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction.

What the record shows

71.7% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 100% of the 141 California systems that filed that year.

71.7% non-revenue water in FY2025, against 141 California filings for the same yearA strip of 141 filings on a 0 to 64% axis. The median is 6.9%. This system is 71.7%.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 71.7%California median 6.9%
The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 29.1 points a year, against a California median of 2.6, including 82% to 15% between FY2020 and FY2021. A distribution system's real losses do not change that fast — pipe does not deteriorate or repair itself in a single year. A series that moves like this is describing how the water is being measured and recorded, not how much of it is being lost, and which year is closer to true cannot be settled from this filing.

Compliance record

EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System carries no violation for this system in the 2026Q2 download.

That is a statement about the record. SDWIS is a state-to-EPA reporting pipeline and its completeness varies by primacy agency and by quarter, so an empty record is not the same as a system that has never been in violation.

Who filed this audit

Lompoc City Of filed 2 separate audits for FY2025, one for each public water system it operates, and this page is one of them. California keys its water loss export on the filing organization and not on the system, so a count of California audits is not a count of independent utilities. Lompoc City Of made one set of decisions and filed it 2 times. Read any statewide figure with that in mind, including the ones on this site.

Every figure on this page is read from DWR's published export as this site holds it: a 184-column extract of DWR's 190-column file. Six columns naming individuals, including the contact and the third-party validator, are removed before the bytes are committed, so the click path behind each figure lands on the extract and not on DWR's original. The column letters differ from DWR's for that reason.

Water balance, FY2025 · 2.79 MG system input
Billed 0.79 MG Unbilled authorized 1.39 MG Apparent loss 0.06 MG Real loss 0.56 MG

DWR derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so these parts sum to the whole on every filing. What a filing can get wrong is which of these numbers were measured.

Where these volumes come from
  • System input 2.79 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AN3931 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Billed authorized 0.79 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AQ3931 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Unbilled authorized 1.39 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AW3931 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Apparent loss 0.06 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CC3931 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Real loss 0.56 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CE3931 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet

From data/archive/ca-dwr-water-loss/2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csv (SHA-256 f0dfea5a6026881d), retrieved 2026-09-05 from the published source.

Filed history, 2020–2025
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable
2025 71.7% 2.79 $244
2024 81.0% 3.71 $195
2023 55.3% 2.7 $322
2022 56.9% 2.47 $553
2021 14.7% 2.38 $123
2020 81.7% 3.11 $167

Comparable systems

The same size band — under 1,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Amador Water Agency - Pg&eunder 1,000 connections 0.7% FY2024
Port Hueneme Water Agencyunder 1,000 connections 0.8% FY2023
Placer County Water Agency Monte Vistaunder 1,000 connections 0.8% FY2024
Tuolumne Utilites District - Wards Ferryunder 1,000 connections 4.7% FY2024
Gswc - South Shoreunder 1,000 connections 40.0% FY2024
Big Bear Lake Department Ofunder 1,000 connections 0.0% FY2025
South Feather Water & Power Agency - Btpunder 1,000 connections 11.5% FY2024
Lake Hemet Municipal Water Districtunder 1,000 connections 100.0% FY2020

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $244 a year. It cannot say which accounts, which zones, or which meters. That takes your billing history, your meter reads, and your production data reconciled against each other.

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Sources and corrections. Every figure above is either filed by the utility or computed from filed figures, and each one says which. If a number here is wrong, it is either wrong in the filing or wrong in our reading of it — tell us which and we will correct the page and say what changed.

Cite as

Municorn.us, “Lompoc — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/ca/city-of-lompoc/ (source filings retrieved 2026-09-05).

CC BY 4.0 — reuse and redistribution are permitted with attribution to Municorn.us and a link to this page. Terms, and the one caveat that must travel with these figures.

"Water loss" is at least three different quantities depending on the jurisdiction, and nothing here supports a comparison between states.