Georgia · PWS GA0170000 · BEN HILL County

Fitzgerald

What Fitzgerald filed with EPD about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2011–2025 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2025
18.9%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx2025 Water Audits H87

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 910.7 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H87 · million gallons per year, declared in the header through 2020 and settled for 2021-2025 by EPD's own cost arithmetic and by continuity across the change
  • billed authorized consumption 739 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I87 · billed metered plus billed unmetered

From data/archive/ga-epd-water-loss/2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx (SHA-256 69903a9418bc6d60), retrieved 2026-09-06 from the published source.

Recoverable annually
$7,650
Apparent loss is valued at this utility's own reported retail price of water. Real loss is NOT included — EPD 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.

2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx2025 Water Audits Z87

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 7,648 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell Z87

From data/archive/ga-epd-water-loss/2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx (SHA-256 69903a9418bc6d60), retrieved 2026-09-06 from the published source.

Balance check
inapplicable
EPD derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction.

What the record shows

18.9% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 31% of the 228 Georgia systems that filed that year.

18.9% non-revenue water in FY2025, against 228 Georgia filings for the same yearA strip of 228 filings on a 0 to 64% axis. The median is 26.4%. This system is 18.9%. 4 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 18.9%Georgia median 26.4%
The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 8.7 points a year, against a Georgia median of 4.9, including 45% to 11% 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.

Compliance record

30 violations on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2, of which 27 are health-based. 3 resolved, 27 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.

Water balance, FY2025 · 910.7 MG system input
Billed 739 MG Unbilled authorized 87.9 MG Apparent loss 3.69 MG Real loss 80.1 MG

EPD 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 910.7 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H87 · million gallons per year, declared in the header through 2020 and settled for 2021-2025 by EPD's own cost arithmetic and by continuity across the change
  • Billed authorized 739 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I87 · billed metered plus billed unmetered
  • Unbilled authorized 87.9 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell K87 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered
  • Apparent loss 3.69 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell O87
  • Real loss 80.1 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell P87

From data/archive/ga-epd-water-loss/2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx (SHA-256 69903a9418bc6d60), retrieved 2026-09-06 from the published source.

Filed history, 2011–2025
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable
2025 18.9% 910.7 $7,650
2024 28.2% 850.4 $6,100
2023 17.9% 830.6 $7,160
2022 25.5% 898.7 $30,000
2021 9.8% 748.2 $41,600
2020 14.4% 811.6 $30,100
2019 18.3% 812.5 $29,500
2018 10.6% 714.9 $28,200
2017 10.6% 671.5 $27,700
2016 45.3% 837.8 $9,640
2015 24.8% 854.4 $5,840
2014 24.8% 855.3 $30,100
2013 25.7% 820.8 $29,000
2012 23.9% 904.8 $26,700
2011 29.3% 994 $28,200

Comparable systems

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

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Jefferson3,300–10,000 connections 27.2% FY2025
Grovetown3,300–10,000 connections 16.6% FY2025
Vidalia3,300–10,000 connections 43.6% FY2025
Union City3,300–10,000 connections 24.3% FY2025
Fairburn3,300–10,000 connections 7.9% FY2025
Lowndes Co.-north Lowndes Co. Ws3,300–10,000 connections 39.0% FY2025
Bainbridge3,300–10,000 connections 37.7% FY2025
Roswell3,300–10,000 connections 23.6% FY2025

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $7,650 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, “Fitzgerald — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/ga/fitzgerald/ (source filings retrieved 2026-09-06).

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.