California · PWS CA3410018

Rio Linda Elverta Community Water District

What Rio Linda Elverta Community Water District filed with DWR about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2016–2023 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2023
18.2%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csvSheet1 AN2826

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 775.5 sheet Sheet1, cell AN2826 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • billed authorized consumption 634.6 sheet Sheet1, cell AQ2826 · 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
$34,700
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 DH2826

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 34,664 sheet Sheet1, cell DH2826

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

18.2% non-revenue water in FY2023, higher than 84% of the 547 California systems that filed that year.

18.2% non-revenue water in FY2023, against 547 California filings for the same yearA strip of 547 filings on a 0 to 64% axis. The median is 8.9%. This system is 18.2%. 1 filing above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 18.2%California median 8.9%
The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 5.2 points a year, against a California median of 2.6, including 5% to 28% between FY2016 and FY2017. 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.

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

16 violations on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2, of which 2 are health-based. 15 resolved, 1 archived, and 0 still open.

Nothing on the record is open as of 2026Q2.

Counted as distinct violations, not as rows: EPA's export carries one row per enforcement action taken against a violation, so a row count would multiply this system's record several times over. A violation here is a breach of a reporting, monitoring or contaminant-level rule as reported to EPA — it is not a measurement of the water, and this site has none.

Source: US EPA, Safe Drinking Water Information System, via the ECHO national download, 2026Q2. How we hold it.

Who filed this audit

Rio Linda - Elverta Community Water District filed this audit for FY2023 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.

Water balance, FY2023 · 775.5 MG system input
Billed 634.6 MG Unbilled authorized 1.59 MG Apparent loss 12.8 MG Real loss 126.5 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 775.5 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AN2826 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Billed authorized 634.6 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AQ2826 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Unbilled authorized 1.59 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AW2826 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Apparent loss 12.8 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CC2826 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Real loss 126.5 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CE2826 · 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, 2016–2023
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable
2023 18.2% 775.5 $34,700
2022 17.3% 835.3 $37,700
2021 25.7% 915.2 $19,800
2020 25.5% 930.6 $17,900
2019 26.3% 799.1 $12,600
2018 28.5% 820.9 $12,700
2017 27.6% 827.1 $10,700
2016 4.5% 689.8 $3,420

Comparable systems

The same size band — 3,300–10,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Olivehurst Public Utility District3,300–10,000 connections 11.6% FY2025
Fortuna, City Of3,300–10,000 connections 14.7% FY2024
Menlo Park3,300–10,000 connections 11.0% FY2024
Shasta Lake3,300–10,000 connections 5.8% FY2024
Triunfo Water & Sanitation District3,300–10,000 connections 3.9% FY2025
San Jacinto3,300–10,000 connections 6.9% FY2025
California - American Water Company - Sacramento District - Fruitridge Vista3,300–10,000 connections 16.2% FY2024
Carpinteria Valley Water District3,300–10,000 connections 3.9% FY2025

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $34,700 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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See what the Snapshot delivers Email us about Rio Linda Elverta Community Water District

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, “Rio Linda Elverta Community Water District — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/ca/rio-linda-elverta-community-water-district/ (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.