Georgia · PWS GA1030001 · EFFINGHAM County

Rincon

What Rincon filed with EPD about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2012–2025 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2025: 22.9%
Recoverable annually: $10,200
Balance check: inapplicable

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What the record shows

22.9% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 39% of the 228 Georgia systems that filed that year.

The figure is getting worse across the record.
1 of 13 years carry no figure — which by EPD's own note means it had insufficient data to calculate one.

The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 13.7 points a year, against a Georgia median of 4.9, including 4% to 40% between FY2016 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.

Compliance record

43 violations on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2, of which 1 is health-based. 12 resolved, 31 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.

2 filed values that cannot be true.

The FY2018 volumes are not published here because the filing contradicts itself — billed authorized consumption 601.6 MG exceeds this filing's own system input 345.3 MG.
FY2016 reports a leakage index of 0.020335641556810745, which would mean less real loss than the unavoidable minimum the same audit computes for this network.

Each is reproduced exactly as filed and excluded from every figure computed on this page. A number that contradicts its own audit is a finding about the filing, not a gap in ours.

Water balance, FY2025 · 372.3 MG system input

77%

22%

Billed 287 MG Unbilled authorized 0.72 MG Apparent loss 1.43 MG Real loss 83.1 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 372.3 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H181 · 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 287 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I181 · billed metered plus billed unmetered
Unbilled authorized 0.72 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell K181 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered
Apparent loss 1.43 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell O181
Real loss 83.1 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell P181

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, 2012–2025
Year	NRW	Input (MG)	Recoverable	Balance
2025	22.9%	372.3	$10,200	inapplicable
2024	16.9%	378.5	$7,070	inapplicable
2023	11.3%	356.2	$7,110	inapplicable
2022	31.8%	342.2	$17,100	inapplicable
2021	15.5%	342.2	$20,600	inapplicable
2020	14.0%	334.7	$20,500	inapplicable
2019	39.8%	334.2	$16,200	inapplicable
2018	—	—	—	insufficient
2016	4.1%	316.6	$8,110	inapplicable
2015	35.8%	261.4	$13,800	inapplicable
2014	33.1%	316.7	$20,100	inapplicable
2013	9.3%	282.8	$16,900	inapplicable
2012	4.5%	286.9	$16,300	inapplicable

Comparable systems

In the same county.

System	Basis for comparison	NRW
Effingham County Surface	EFFINGHAM County	7.7% FY2025
Thomson- McDuffie	3,300–10,000 connections	25.5% FY2025
Ellijay Gilmer County Water And Sewer Auth	3,300–10,000 connections	17.8% FY2025
Barrow County	3,300–10,000 connections	32.9% FY2025
Lawrenceville	3,300–10,000 connections	10.7% FY2019
Haralson County	3,300–10,000 connections	38.8% FY2025
Douglas	3,300–10,000 connections	22.6% FY2025
Powder Springs	3,300–10,000 connections	26.1% FY2018

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $10,200 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.

Georgia EPD — validated water loss audit results, filed under the Water Stewardship Act of 2010. Retrieved 2026-09-06 from data/archive/ga-epd-water-loss/2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx. https://epd.georgia.gov/watershed-protection-branch/water-efficiency-and-water-loss-audits

What the record shows

Compliance record

Comparable systems

Where is it going?

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