Texas · PWS TX1390004 · LAMAR County

Blossom

What Blossom filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2015 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2015
11.8%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$17,361
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

Blossom serves 597 retail connections and about 1,490 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

11.8% non-revenue water in FY2015, higher than 32% of the 1,728 Texas systems that filed that year.

Water balance, FY2015 · 39.9 MG system input
Billed 35.2 MG Unbilled authorized 0.5 MG Apparent loss 1.19 MG Real loss 3.01 MG

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

Filed history, 2015–2015
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2015 11.8% 39.9 $17,361 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
M J C Water Supply CorpLAMAR County 13.1%
DeportLAMAR County 17.5%
Pattonville Water Supply CorpLAMAR County 23.4%
RenoLAMAR County 25.2%
Lamar County Water Supply DistrictLAMAR County 25.4%
ParisLAMAR County 24.4%
Lancaster MUD 1under 1,000 connections 4.4%
Itascaunder 1,000 connections 25.8%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $17,361 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.