California · PWS CA5510028

Tuolumne Utilites District - Apple Valley

What Tuolumne Utilites District - Apple Valley filed with DWR about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2017–2024 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2024
4.7%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csvSheet1 AN4677

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 27.3 sheet Sheet1, cell AN4677 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • billed authorized consumption 26 sheet Sheet1, cell AQ4677 · 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
$505
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 DH4677

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 504.7 sheet Sheet1, cell DH4677

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

4.7% non-revenue water in FY2024, higher than 13% of the 545 California systems that filed that year.

4.7% non-revenue water in FY2024, against 545 California filings for the same yearA strip of 545 filings on a 0 to 64% axis. The median is 9.2%. This system is 4.7%. 1 filing above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 4.7%California median 9.2%
The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 8.8 points a year, against a California median of 2.6, including 34% to 8% between FY2018 and FY2019. 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

3 violations on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2. 3 resolved, 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

Tuolumne Utilities District filed 8 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. Tuolumne Utilities District made one set of decisions and filed it 8 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, FY2024 · 27.3 MG system input
Billed 26 MG Unbilled authorized 0.2 MG Apparent loss 0.13 MG Real loss 0.96 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 27.3 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AN4677 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Billed authorized 26 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AQ4677 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Unbilled authorized 0.2 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AW4677 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Apparent loss 0.13 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CC4677 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Real loss 0.96 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CE4677 · 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, 2017–2024
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable
2024 4.7% 27.3 $505
2023 12.1% 28.5 $436
2022 11.5% 29.9 $399
2021 11.6% 31.9 $2,280
2020 6.2% 29.9 $2,200
2019 7.9% 15.2 $1,530
2018 33.6% 20.9 $1,480
2017 12.7% 15.8 $1,320

Comparable systems

The same size band — under 1,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Sacramento County Water Agency - Northgate 880under 1,000 connections 22.6% FY2024
Lake Arrowhead Csd Ca3610045 Rim Forestunder 1,000 connections 32.2% FY2025
North Tahoe PUD - Carnelian Woodsunder 1,000 connections 13.1% FY2024
Lake Hemet MWD Garner Valleyunder 1,000 connections 10.1% FY2022
Tahoe City Public Utility Districtunder 1,000 connections 16.4% FY2024
Cws Rdv Armstrong Valleyunder 1,000 connections 17.4% FY2024
California - American Water Company - Hillview District - Hillview - Goldsideunder 1,000 connections 3.3% FY2024
Liberty Utilities, Yermounder 1,000 connections 6.9% FY2024

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $505 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, “Tuolumne Utilites District - Apple Valley — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/ca/tuolumne-utilites-district-apple-valley/ (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.