Indiana · PWS IN5233005

Knightstown Water

What Knightstown Water filed with IFA about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2019–2023 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2023
56.3%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-08-c8960b5d1f33.xlsxSheet1 H232

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 100.2 sheet Sheet1, cell H232 · million gallons per year, declared in the column header in all three vintages
  • billed authorized consumption 43.8 sheet Sheet1, cell I232 · billed metered plus billed unmetered

From data/archive/in-ifa-water-loss/2026-09-08-c8960b5d1f33.xlsx (SHA-256 c8960b5d1f332b53), retrieved 2026-09-08 from the published source.

Recoverable annually
$1,610
Apparent loss is valued at this utility's own reported retail price of water. Real loss is NOT included — IFA 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.

2026-09-08-c8960b5d1f33.xlsxSheet1 AA232

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 1,608 sheet Sheet1, cell AA232

From data/archive/in-ifa-water-loss/2026-09-08-c8960b5d1f33.xlsx (SHA-256 c8960b5d1f332b53), retrieved 2026-09-08 from the published source.

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

What the record shows

56.3% non-revenue water in FY2023, higher than 96% of the 430 Indiana systems that filed that year.

56.3% non-revenue water in FY2023, against 430 Indiana filings for the same yearA strip of 430 filings on a 0 to 64% axis. The median is 22.6%. This system is 56.3%. 7 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 56.3%Indiana median 22.6%
The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 5.4 points a year, against a Indiana median of 2.8, including 42% to 56% between FY2021 and FY2023. 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

8 violations on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2. 5 resolved, 2 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.

Water balance, FY2023 · 100.2 MG system input
Billed 43.8 MG Unbilled authorized 1.85 MG Apparent loss 0.22 MG Real loss 54.4 MG

IFA 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 100.2 MG sheet Sheet1, cell H232 · million gallons per year, declared in the column header in all three vintages
  • Billed authorized 43.8 MG sheet Sheet1, cell I232 · billed metered plus billed unmetered
  • Unbilled authorized 1.85 MG sheet Sheet1, cell K232 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered
  • Apparent loss 0.22 MG sheet Sheet1, cell O232
  • Real loss 54.4 MG sheet Sheet1, cell P232

From data/archive/in-ifa-water-loss/2026-09-08-c8960b5d1f33.xlsx (SHA-256 c8960b5d1f332b53), retrieved 2026-09-08 from the published source.

Filed history, 2019–2023
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable
2023 56.3% 100.2 $1,610
2021 42.0% 74.9 $1,560
2019 49.3% 91.9 $27,200

Comparable systems

The same size band — 1,000–3,300 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Crawfword County Water Company Inc.1,000–3,300 connections 17.6% FY2023
Holton Community Water Corporation1,000–3,300 connections 26.3% FY2023
Northwest Jasper Rwd1,000–3,300 connections 9.0% FY2023
Hanover1,000–3,300 connections 12.1% FY2023
Hamilton1,000–3,300 connections 31.6% FY2021
Sullivan-vigo Rural Water Corp.1,000–3,300 connections 3.4% FY2023
South Whitley, Town Of1,000–3,300 connections 26.7% FY2021
Knox, Town Of1,000–3,300 connections 25.5% FY2023

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $1,610 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 Knightstown Water

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, “Knightstown Water — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/in/knightstown-water/ (source filings retrieved 2026-09-08).

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.