Helix Water District
What Helix Water District filed with DWR about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2017–2025 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.
- Non-revenue water, FY2025
- 4.8% Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
- system input volume 9,546 sheet Sheet1, cell AN3377 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- billed authorized consumption 9,090 sheet Sheet1, cell AQ3377 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Recoverable annually
- $1.0M 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.
- cost of apparent losses, as filed 1,025,144 sheet Sheet1, cell DH3377
- Balance check
- inapplicable DWR derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction.
2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csvSheet1 AN3377
Where this figure comes from
(system input − billed authorized) ÷ system input × 100
From data/archive/ca-dwr-water-loss/2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csv (SHA-256 f0dfea5a6026881d), retrieved 2026-09-05 from the published source.
2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csvSheet1 DH3377
Where this figure comes from
cost of apparent losses + cost of real losses, both as computed in the filed audit
From data/archive/ca-dwr-water-loss/2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csv (SHA-256 f0dfea5a6026881d), retrieved 2026-09-05 from the published source.
What the record shows
4.8% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 22% of the 141 California systems that filed that year.
- The figure is roughly flat across the record.
What it charges
No bill is published for this system. This system does not bill monthly, and a bill is per billing period — a bi-monthly fixed charge is not half a monthly one, and nothing filed says how its tiers apply to a month.
It did answer the Board's customer-charge questions for reporting year 2025; what is missing is what a comparable figure needs.
Source: California State Water Resources Control Board, electronic Annual Report 2025, section 8a, filed under Health and Safety Code section 116530. How every California bill on this site compares.
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
Helix Water District filed this audit for FY2025 and operates no other system in the export that year. California keys its export on the filing organization and not on the system, so the two coincide here rather than by definition.
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.
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 9,546 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AN3377 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Billed authorized 9,090 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AQ3377 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Unbilled authorized 22.7 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AW3377 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Apparent loss 108.5 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CC3377 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Real loss 325.1 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CE3377 · 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.
| Year | NRW | Input (MG) | Recoverable |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.8% | 9,546 | $1.0M |
| 2024 | 3.5% | 8,830 | $975,000 |
| 2023 | 3.8% | 8,937 | $829,000 |
| 2022 | 4.1% | 9,604 | $479,000 |
| 2021 | 5.7% | 10,046 | $586,000 |
| 2020 | 6.1% | 9,325 | $490,000 |
| 2019 | 4.5% | 9,091 | $519,000 |
| 2018 | 4.8% | 9,890 | $457,000 |
| 2017 | 6.0% | 9,373 | $272,000 |
Comparable systems
The same size band — over 50,000 connections.
| System | Basis for comparison | NRW |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Margarita Water District | over 50,000 connections | 3.7% FY2025 |
| Contra Costa Water District | over 50,000 connections | 14.2% FY2024 |
| Los Angeles County Waterworks District No. 40 | over 50,000 connections | 9.0% FY2016 |
| Marin Municipal Water District | over 50,000 connections | 9.1% FY2024 |
| Bakersfield | over 50,000 connections | 15.3% FY2025 |
| Anaheim Public | over 50,000 connections | 5.1% FY2024 |
| Huntington Beach | over 50,000 connections | 3.9% FY2024 |
| Gswc - Southwest | over 50,000 connections | 6.5% FY2024 |
Where is it going?
This page says how much — roughly $1.0M 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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- California DWR — urban retail water supplier water loss audits, filed under Water Code section 10608.34. Retrieved 2026-09-05 from data/archive/ca-dwr-water-loss/2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csv. https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/d6cdd89e-49b0-4b1f-86ee-8b7237e5f169/resource/058ac6ca-a8b4-4f28-b6c8-11e48309f3b4/download/ca-retailer-waterlossdata.csv