Georgia · PWS GA0550003 · CHATTOOGA County

Summerville

What Summerville 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
37.5%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx2025 Water Audits H205

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 841.2 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H205 · 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 525.6 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I205 · 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
$233,000
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 Z205

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 232,641 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell Z205

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

37.5% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 76% of the 228 Georgia systems that filed that year.

37.5% 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 26.2%. This system is 37.5%. 4 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 37.5%Georgia median 26.2%

Compliance record

13 violations on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2, of which 3 are health-based. 11 resolved, 2 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 · 841.2 MG system input
Billed 525.6 MG Unbilled authorized 1.31 MG Apparent loss 30.3 MG Real loss 283.9 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 841.2 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H205 · 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 525.6 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I205 · billed metered plus billed unmetered
  • Unbilled authorized 1.31 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell K205 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered
  • Apparent loss 30.3 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell O205
  • Real loss 283.9 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell P205

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 37.5% 841.2 $233,000
2024 35.3% 836 $228,000
2023 41.5% 844.5 $169,000
2022 37.2% 839 $136,000
2021 27.2% 724.1 $135,000
2020 27.5% 701 $76,200
2019 25.8% 714.4 $40,600
2018 23.3% 663.7 $40,100
2017 23.5% 637.9 $168,000
2016 18.7% 657.4 $184,000
2015 22.6% 602.3 $161,000
2014 39.3% 654.6 $71,600
2013 31.5% 629.1 $71,700
2012 23.5% 632.1 $102,000
2011 28.0% 700.4 $250,000

Comparable systems

In the same county.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Chattooga County Water District 1CHATTOOGA County 27.5% FY2020
Savannah - Wilmington3,300–10,000 connections 19.4% FY2025
Centerville3,300–10,000 connections 39.8% FY2025
Commerce3,300–10,000 connections 33.9% FY2025
Towns County Water And Sewerage3,300–10,000 connections 42.1% FY2025
Fort Valley Utility Commission3,300–10,000 connections 35.2% FY2025
The Landings Subdivision - Utilities, Inc.3,300–10,000 connections 8.1% FY2025
Locust Grove3,300–10,000 connections 4.4% FY2025

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $233,000 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.

See what the Snapshot delivers Email us about Summerville

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