Texas · PWS TX1010003 · HARRIS County

Baytown

What Baytown filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2016–2023 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2023
12.5%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$3.47M
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

Baytown serves 37,205 retail connections and about 85,704 people. Because it reports more than 3,300 connections, it is on an annual water loss audit cycle with TWDB.

What the record shows

12.5% non-revenue water in FY2023, higher than 37% of the 785 Texas systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is stable, moving 2.14 points a year against a Texas median of 5.81, so the level is more likely to reflect the system than the paperwork.

Water balance, FY2023 · 4,518 MG system input
Billed 3,954 MG Unbilled authorized 19.4 MG Apparent loss 142 MG Real loss 403.4 MG

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

Filed history, 2016–2023
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2023 12.5% 4,518 $3.47M closed
2021 17.6% 3,799 $2.3M closed
2020 16.1% 3,992 $2.11M closed
2019 17.5% 3,803 $2.19M closed
2018 19.2% 3,957 $2.27M closed
2017 17.5% 3,880 $1.6M closed
2016 18.9% 3,896 $2.68M 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 — 10,000–50,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
PasadenaHARRIS County 14.0%
Clear Lake CityHARRIS County 13.4%
La PorteHARRIS County 23.1%
Harris County MUD 165HARRIS County 14.3%
Deer ParkHARRIS County 20.1%
KatyHARRIS County 8.8%
Timber Lane Utility DistrictHARRIS County 14.5%
Northwest Harris County MUD 5HARRIS County 14.2%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $3.47M 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 Baytown

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.