# Petersburg Water — water loss as filed

IFA · PWS IN5263002 · filings 2019–2023
https://municorn.us/water-loss/in/petersburg-water/

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> **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.

## Summary

Petersburg Water reported **70.5% non-revenue water** in FY2023, higher than 99% of the 430 Indiana systems that filed that year.

**The water balance is not a check here.** IFA derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction.
- The figure moved from 54% to 71% between FY2021 and FY2023.

## Filed history

| Year | Non-revenue water % | System input (MG) | Cost of losses/yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 70.5% | 139.6 |  |
| 2021 | 54.1% | 211.4 | $16,700 |
| 2019 | 57.4% | 199.6 | $30,400 |

## How the cost figure is built

Apparent loss is water delivered and never billed, so it is valued at the retail rate: revenue, recoverable inside a
budget year without capital work. Real loss is valued at variable production cost, because eliminating a leak saves
treatment and pumping rather than retail price. Where the filed audit carries its own cost of losses — as
IFA's export does — those figures are used directly and no rate of ours enters the
calculation.

## Source

Indiana Finance Authority — compiled water loss audit dataset, Appendix B to the biennial report required by IC 8-1-30.8. Retrieved 2026-09-08. https://www.in.gov/ifa/water-loss-audits/

The FY2023 loss figure: (system input − billed authorized) ÷ system input × 100, from system input volume at `Sheet1!H339`; billed authorized consumption at `Sheet1!I339` — in `data/archive/in-ifa-water-loss/2026-09-08-c8960b5d1f33.xlsx` (sha256 c8960b5d1f332b53, retrieved 2026-09-08, https://www.in.gov/ifa/files/2024-WLA-Report-Appendix-B-revised14July2025.xlsx), read by `src/scrape/in.ts` at c395acf0ba31.

Volumes are normalized to million gallons on ingest; the export reports them in the unit each filing states.

Figures are as filed unless stated otherwise. If a number here is wrong it is wrong in the filing or wrong in
our reading of it, and both are worth knowing: ammar@municorn.us

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## Compliance record

Violations on EPA's record as of 2026Q2: **7** (0 health-based).
Resolved: 6. Archived: 1. **Still open: 0.**

Nothing on the record is open as of 2026Q2.

Counted as distinct violations rather than as rows: EPA's export carries one row per enforcement action taken
against a violation. A violation is a breach of a reporting, monitoring or contaminant-level rule as reported
to EPA; it is not a measurement of the water.

Source: US EPA, Safe Drinking Water Information System, via the ECHO national download, 2026Q2.