Sweetwater Springs Water District
What Sweetwater Springs Water District filed with DWR about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2016–2024 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.
- Non-revenue water, FY2024
- 18.4% Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
- system input volume 56.4 sheet Sheet1, cell AN4394 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- billed authorized consumption 46 sheet Sheet1, cell AQ4394 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Recoverable annually
- $5,300 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 5,302 sheet Sheet1, cell DH4394
- Balance check
- inapplicable DWR derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction.
2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csvSheet1 AN4394
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 DH4394
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
18.4% non-revenue water in FY2024, higher than 81% of the 545 California systems that filed that year.
- The figure is improving 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
Sweetwater Springs Water District filed 2 separate audits for FY2024, 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. Sweetwater Springs Water District 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.
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 56.4 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AN4394 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Billed authorized 46 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AQ4394 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Unbilled authorized 0.12 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AW4394 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Apparent loss 1.17 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CC4394 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
- Real loss 9.1 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CE4394 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18.4% | 56.4 | $5,300 |
| 2023 | 10.0% | 48.7 | $4,400 |
| 2022 | 11.0% | 52.9 | $4,400 |
| 2021 | 13.4% | 58.6 | $4,580 |
| 2020 | 15.0% | 64.1 | $4,680 |
| 2019 | 18.5% | 62.3 | $4,640 |
| 2018 | 12.4% | 57.4 | $4,200 |
| 2017 | 18.5% | 60 | $4,070 |
| 2016 | 13.9% | 55.1 | $3,770 |
Comparable systems
The same size band — 1,000–3,300 connections.
| System | Basis for comparison | NRW |
|---|---|---|
| Amador Water Agnecy - Lk Camanche | 1,000–3,300 connections | 25.0% FY2024 |
| Placer County Water Agency Colfax | 1,000–3,300 connections | 31.6% FY2024 |
| Folsom - Ashland | 1,000–3,300 connections | 15.4% FY2024 |
| Cws Krv South Lake | 1,000–3,300 connections | 25.9% FY2024 |
| California - American Water Company - Hillview District - Hillview - Oakhurst/sierra Lakes | 1,000–3,300 connections | 11.8% FY2024 |
| Rincon Del Diablo Municipal Water District | 1,000–3,300 connections | 9.5% FY2024 |
| San Antonio Water Company | 1,000–3,300 connections | 18.2% FY2021 |
| East Orange County Water District | 1,000–3,300 connections | 12.0% FY2024 |
Where is it going?
This page says how much — roughly $5,300 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 Sweetwater Springs Water DistrictSources 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