Texas · PWS TX0200001 · BRAZORIA County

Alvin

What Alvin filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2021–2023 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2023
12.6%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$881,419
As computed in the filed audit itself: apparent loss valued at this utility's own reported retail price of water, real loss at its own reported variable production cost. Not our estimate.
Balance check
closed
The filed water balance closes.

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What the filing says

Alvin serves 8,748 retail connections and about 29,511 people. Because it reports more than 3,300 connections, it is on an annual water loss audit cycle with TWDB.

What the record shows

12.6% non-revenue water in FY2023, higher than 37% of the 785 Texas systems that filed that year.

Water balance, FY2023 · 1,184 MG system input
Billed 1,036 MG Unbilled authorized 2.59 MG Apparent loss 26.3 MG Real loss 119.8 MG Unexplained residual

Components sum to within 0.00% of reported system input, inside the 0.5% tolerance.

Filed history, 2021–2023
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2023 12.6% 1,184 $881,419 closed
2021 17.1% 1,084 $500,331 closed

How to read the recoverable figure

Apparent loss is water that reached a customer and was never billed — under-registering meters, data-handling errors, unauthorized use. It is valued at the retail rate, because recovering it is revenue, and it is recoverable inside a budget year without capital work. Real loss is valued at variable production cost only: eliminating a leak saves what it cost to treat and pump the water, not what it would have sold for. Adding those two at the same rate is how a loss study produces a number nobody in a finance department believes.

As computed in the filed audit itself: apparent loss valued at this utility's own reported retail price of water, real loss at its own reported variable production cost. Not our estimate.

Comparable systems

Same county, or the same size band — 3,300–10,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
AngletonBRAZORIA County 28.5%
Lake JacksonBRAZORIA County 33.8%
FreeportBRAZORIA County 8.8%
CluteBRAZORIA County 26.2%
RichwoodBRAZORIA County 19.0%
Pearland MUD 1BRAZORIA County 40.9%
West ColumbiaBRAZORIA County 16.5%
Brazoria County MUD 25BRAZORIA County 6.5%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $881,419 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.

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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.