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Hopkinton

What Hopkinton filed with MassDEP about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2019–2025 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Unaccounted-for water, FY2024
18.0%
As reported by the utility; the underlying volumes are not published.
Recoverable annually
—
Not estimable from what MassDEP publishes. A loss percentage cannot be priced without the volume it is a share of.
Balance check
inapplicable
This state does not require a component water balance.

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What the record shows

18.0% unaccounted-for water in FY2024, higher than 71% of the 278 Massachusetts systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 8.6 points a year, against a Massachusetts median of 3.8, including 27% to 3% between FY2021 and FY2022. 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.
Filed history, 2019–2025 · bold is above the state standard
YearUnaccounted-for waterResidential gal/capita/day
2025 50.6
2024 18.0% 52
2023 16.0% 57
2022 3.0% 78
2021 27.0% 64
2020 25.0% 67
2019 23.0%

Standards are 10% unaccounted-for water and 65 gallons per capita per day. A blank is a year MassDEP could not calculate a value — by its own note, a system not fully metered, a master meter malfunction, seasonal population, or no report filed.

Comparable systems

Same county, or the same size band — size not reported.

SystemBasis for comparisonUAW
Adams Fire Districtsize not reported —
Agawamsize not reported —
Amherst DPWsize not reported —
Atholsize not reported —
Belchertown Water Districtsize not reported —
Bernardston Fire & Water Districtsize not reported 35.0%
Cheshiresize not reported —
Chicopeesize not reported —

Where is it going?

This page says how much. 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 Hopkinton

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.