# Eatonton-putnam — water loss as filed

EPD · PWS GA2370000 · PUTNAM County · filings 2012–2025
https://municorn.us/water-loss/ga/eatonton-putnam/

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> **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.

## Summary

Eatonton-putnam reported **an unstated share of non-revenue water** in FY2025.

**The filing does not publish enough components to decompose system input.** Absent: system input volume, billed authorized consumption, unbilled authorized consumption, apparent loss, real loss.
- The figure moved from 28% to 18% between FY2019 and FY2020.

**3 filed values that cannot be true.** Each is reproduced exactly as filed and excluded from every figure computed here. A number that contradicts its own audit is a finding about the filing, not a gap in ours.

- The FY2025 volumes are not published here because the filing contradicts itself — 98,767 gal/person/day implied by this filing's own system input and population.
- The FY2024 volumes are not published here because the filing contradicts itself — 105,390 gal/person/day implied by this filing's own system input and population.
- FY2021 reports a leakage index of 0.013869838021175569, which would mean less real loss than the unavoidable minimum the same audit computes for this network.

## Filed history

| Year | Non-revenue water % | System input (MG) | Cost of losses/yr | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  |  |  | insufficient |
| 2024 |  |  |  | insufficient |
| 2023 | 20.9% | 463.3 | $35,500 | inapplicable |
| 2022 | 18.1% | 421.5 | $30,800 | inapplicable |
| 2021 | 8.1% | 394.6 | $32,400 | inapplicable |
| 2020 | 17.8% | 384.1 | $30,700 | inapplicable |
| 2019 | 28.3% | 369.3 | $36,000 | inapplicable |
| 2018 | 31.8% | 339.1 | $34,500 | inapplicable |
| 2017 | 29.6% | 328 | $83,100 | inapplicable |
| 2016 | 35.3% | 355.4 | $74,400 | inapplicable |
| 2015 | 37.9% | 343.9 | $64,400 | inapplicable |
| 2014 | 36.5% | 347.1 | $22,500 | inapplicable |
| 2013 | 33.2% | 306.3 | $34,700 | inapplicable |
| 2012 | 34.1% | 326.5 | $22,300 | inapplicable |

The Balance column carries more than one verdict on this system. `inapplicable` is a statement about the
source rather than the utility: EPD derives water losses from system input minus
authorized consumption, so the identity holds on every filing where it publishes all the components.
`insufficient` means the filing does not publish enough components to decompose at all. Neither is a pass or a
failure.

## How the cost figure is built

Apparent loss is water delivered and never billed, so it is valued at the retail rate: revenue, recoverable inside a
budget year without capital work. Real loss is valued at variable production cost, because eliminating a leak saves
treatment and pumping rather than retail price. Where the filed audit carries its own cost of losses — as
EPD's export does — those figures are used directly and no rate of ours enters the
calculation.

## Source

Georgia EPD — validated water loss audit results, filed under the Water Stewardship Act of 2010. Retrieved 2026-09-06. https://epd.georgia.gov/watershed-protection-branch/water-efficiency-and-water-loss-audits

Volumes are normalized to million gallons on ingest; the export reports them in the unit each filing states.

Figures are as filed unless stated otherwise. If a number here is wrong it is wrong in the filing or wrong in
our reading of it, and both are worth knowing: ammar@municorn.us

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## Compliance record

Violations on EPA's record as of 2026Q2: **21** (8 health-based).
Resolved: 12. Archived: 9. **Still open: 0.**

Nothing on the record is open as of 2026Q2.

Counted as distinct violations rather than as rows: EPA's export carries one row per enforcement action taken
against a violation. A violation is a breach of a reporting, monitoring or contaminant-level rule as reported
to EPA; it is not a measurement of the water.

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