Texas · PWS TX1070240 · HENDERSON County

Bethel Ash Water Supply Corp Lowe Plant

What Bethel Ash Water Supply Corp Lowe Plant filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2020 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2020
25.6%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$1,842
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

Bethel Ash Water Supply Corp Lowe Plant serves 238 retail connections and about 714 people. Because it reports fewer than 3,300 connections, it is on a five-year water loss audit cycle with TWDB.

What the record shows

25.6% non-revenue water in FY2020, higher than 70% of the 1,775 Texas systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 10.6 points a year, against a Texas median of 5.79, including 28.4% to 16.4% between FY2015 and FY2016. 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.
Water balance, FY2020 · 21.4 MG system input
Billed 15.9 MG Unbilled authorized 2.44 MG Apparent loss 0.21 MG Real loss 2.83 MG

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

Filed history, 2015–2020
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2020 25.6% 21.4 $1,842 closed
2016 16.4% 19.7 $1,289 closed
2015 28.4% 22.6 $1,028 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 — under 1,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Bethel Ash Water Supply Corp Hall PlantHENDERSON County 7.5%
Bethel Ash Water Supply Corp Murphy PlantHENDERSON County 15.7%
Bethel Ash Water Supply Corp Water Edge PlantHENDERSON County 5.6%
Bethel Ash Water Supply Corp McAtee PlantHENDERSON County 10.2%
Lakewood Water WestHENDERSON County 27.4%
Bethel Ash Water Supply Corp Bethel PlantHENDERSON County 4.8%
Star HarborHENDERSON County 14.7%
Lake View Mgmt & Development Dist Long CHENDERSON County 22.2%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $1,842 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.

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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.