Georgia · PWS GA0510001 · CHATHAM County

Pooler

What Pooler 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
10.8%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx2025 Water Audits H175

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 1,267 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H175 · 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 1,130 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I175 · 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
$139,000
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 Z175

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 139,081 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell Z175

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

10.8% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 14% of the 228 Georgia systems that filed that year.

10.8% 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 10.8%. 4 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 10.8%Georgia median 26.4%
The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 17.2 points a year, against a Georgia median of 4.9, including 6% to 100% between FY2023 and FY2024. 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

10 violations on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2, of which 4 are health-based. 6 resolved, 4 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 · 1,267 MG system input
Billed 1,130 MG Unbilled authorized 12.9 MG Apparent loss 8.51 MG Real loss 116.1 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 1,267 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H175 · 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 1,130 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I175 · billed metered plus billed unmetered
  • Unbilled authorized 12.9 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell K175 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered
  • Apparent loss 8.51 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell O175
  • Real loss 116.1 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell P175

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 10.8% 1,267 $139,000
2024 99.9% 1,132 $142
2023 6.3% 1,075 $112,000
2022 14.0% 1,085 $94,800
2021 17.0% 1,021 $55,900
2020 6.2% 1,011 $43,700
2019 11.5% 953.9 $39,100
2018 16.5% 818 $181,000
2017 12.7% 791 $178,000
2016 13.2% 792.7 $177,000
2015 13.6% 708.5 $150,000
2014 7.5% 732.9 $179,000
2013 13.5% 615.7 $138,000
2012 16.8% 663.2 $139,000
2011 22.7% 701 $239,000

Comparable systems

In the same county.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Savannah - Georgetown GatewayCHATHAM County 43.1% FY2025
Larchmont/consolidated UtillitiesCHATHAM County 34.2% FY2025
Savannah - WilmingtonCHATHAM County 19.4% FY2025
The Landings Subdivision - Utilities, Inc.CHATHAM County 8.1% FY2025
Port WentworthCHATHAM County 32.3% FY2025
Garden CityCHATHAM County 20.5% FY2025
Tybee IslandCHATHAM County 12.4% FY2025
Glen Of Robin HoodCHATHAM County 24.2% FY2024

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $139,000 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.

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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, “Pooler — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/ga/pooler/ (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.