Sacramento County Water Agency
What Sacramento County Water Agency filed with DWR about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2019–2019 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.
- Non-revenue water, FY2019
- 6.9% Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
- system input volume 7.53 sheet Sheet1, cell AN2676 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- billed authorized consumption 7.01 sheet Sheet1, cell AQ2676 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Recoverable annually
- $331 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 330.7 sheet Sheet1, cell DH2676
- Balance check
- inapplicable DWR derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction.
2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csvSheet1 AN2676
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 DH2676
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
6.9% non-revenue water in FY2019, higher than 38% of the 546 California systems that filed that year.
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
Sacramento County Water Agency filed 7 separate audits for FY2019, 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. Sacramento County Water Agency made one set of decisions and filed it 7 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.
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 7.53 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AN2676 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Billed authorized 7.01 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AQ2676 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Unbilled authorized 0.09 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AW2676 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Apparent loss 0.11 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CC2676 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Real loss 0.32 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CE2676 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6.9% | 7.53 | $331 |
Comparable systems
The same size band — under 1,000 connections.
| System | Basis for comparison | NRW |
|---|---|---|
| California - American Water Company - Monterey District - Ralph Lane | under 1,000 connections | 4.8% FY2024 |
| California - American Water Company - Hillview District - Hillview - Coarsegold | under 1,000 connections | 19.0% FY2024 |
| Sacramento County Water Agency - Southwest Tract | under 1,000 connections | 13.3% FY2024 |
| Tuolumne Utilites District | under 1,000 connections | 22.8% FY2024 |
| Scv Water-regional | under 1,000 connections | 1.4% FY2024 |
| Tdpud Hirschdale | under 1,000 connections | 8.4% FY2024 |
| South Feather Water & Power Agency - Btp | under 1,000 connections | 11.5% FY2024 |
| Gswc - South Shore | under 1,000 connections | 40.0% FY2024 |
Where is it going?
This page says how much — roughly $331 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.
Our Water Loss Recovery Snapshot is three weeks, one flat fee, and the deliverable is a ranked list of specific accounts and zones with dollars and a confidence on each.
See what the Snapshot delivers Email us about Sacramento County Water AgencySources 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.
- 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