Georgia · PWS GA2570001 · STEPHENS County

Toccoa

What Toccoa 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
55.2%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx2025 Water Audits H217

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 1,541 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H217 · 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 690.6 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I217 · 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
$72,500
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 Z217

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 72,519 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell Z217

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

55.2% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 93% of the 228 Georgia systems that filed that year.

55.2% 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 55.2%. 4 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 55.2%Georgia median 26.2%
The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 9.7 points a year, against a Georgia median of 4.9, including 15% to 46% between FY2015 and FY2016. 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

16 violations on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2, of which 6 are health-based. 12 resolved, 3 archived, and 1 still open.

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.

A filed value that cannot be true.
  • FY2015 reports a leakage index of 0.07, 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 · 1,541 MG system input
Billed 690.6 MG Unbilled authorized 494.6 MG Apparent loss 14.1 MG Real loss 341.9 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 1,541 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H217 · 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 690.6 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I217 · billed metered plus billed unmetered
  • Unbilled authorized 494.6 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell K217 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered
  • Apparent loss 14.1 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell O217
  • Real loss 341.9 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell P217

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 55.2% 1,541 $72,500
2024 35.8% 1,299 $78,000
2023 45.1% 1,299 $172,000
2022 45.4% 1,249 $170,000
2021 31.1% 975 $165,000
2020 57.5% 1,586 $197,000
2019 51.4% 1,480 $226,000
2018 49.7% 1,325 $186,000
2017 48.6% 1,272 $116,000
2016 46.4% 1,312 $125,000
2015 15.4% 809.4 $127,000
2014 26.9% 917.4 $100,000
2013 31.4% 958.6 $92,100
2012 31.5% 1,004 $79,000
2011 39.6% 972.2 $143,000

Comparable systems

The same size band — 10,000–50,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Brunswick-glynn Joint Water Sewer Commission-st. Simons Island10,000–50,000 connections 22.7% FY2025
East Point10,000–50,000 connections 3.5% FY2025
Chatsworth Water Works Commission10,000–50,000 connections 38.1% FY2025
Monroe10,000–50,000 connections 25.7% FY2025
Tifton-tift County10,000–50,000 connections 22.5% FY2025
Cartersville10,000–50,000 connections 28.7% FY2025
Oconee County Water Resources10,000–50,000 connections 10.6% FY2025
Baldwin County10,000–50,000 connections 33.9% FY2025

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $72,500 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, “Toccoa — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/ga/toccoa/ (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.