Indiana · PWS IN5261005

Montezuma Muncipal

What Montezuma Muncipal 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
35.1%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-08-c8960b5d1f33.xlsxSheet1 H284

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 25.6 sheet Sheet1, cell H284 · million gallons per year, declared in the column header in all three vintages
  • billed authorized consumption 16.6 sheet Sheet1, cell I284 · 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
$1,580
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 AA284

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 1,585 sheet Sheet1, cell AA284

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

35.1% non-revenue water in FY2023, higher than 78% of the 430 Indiana systems that filed that year.

35.1% 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 35.1%. 7 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 35.1%Indiana median 22.6%

Compliance record

38 violations on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2, of which 21 are health-based. 12 resolved, 26 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, FY2023 · 25.6 MG system input
Billed 16.6 MG Unbilled authorized 1.2 MG Apparent loss 0.08 MG Real loss 7.71 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 25.6 MG sheet Sheet1, cell H284 · million gallons per year, declared in the column header in all three vintages
  • Billed authorized 16.6 MG sheet Sheet1, cell I284 · billed metered plus billed unmetered
  • Unbilled authorized 1.2 MG sheet Sheet1, cell K284 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered
  • Apparent loss 0.08 MG sheet Sheet1, cell O284
  • Real loss 7.71 MG sheet Sheet1, cell P284

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 35.1% 25.6 $1,580
2019 17.7% 23.2 $3,230

Comparable systems

The same size band — under 1,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Ladoga, Town Ofunder 1,000 connections 18.6% FY2023
Boswell, Town Ofunder 1,000 connections 19.7% FY2023
Swayzee Waterunder 1,000 connections 41.5% FY2023
Silver Lake, Town Ofunder 1,000 connections 19.9% FY2023
Indiana American Water - Summitvilleunder 1,000 connections 12.6% FY2023
Winslow, Town Ofunder 1,000 connections 17.1% FY2023
Topekaunder 1,000 connections 19.9% FY2023
Mentone, Town Ofunder 1,000 connections 10.7% FY2023

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $1,580 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 Montezuma Muncipal

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, “Montezuma Muncipal — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/in/montezuma-muncipal/ (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.