Texas · PWS TX0430002 · COLLIN County

Blue Ridge

What Blue Ridge filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2019 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2019
35.2%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$14,053
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

Blue Ridge serves 453 retail connections and about 1,200 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

35.2% non-revenue water in FY2019, higher than 83% of the 900 Texas systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 25.8 points a year, against a Texas median of 5.79, including 8.9% to 35.2% between FY2016 and FY2019. 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, FY2019 · 33.8 MG system input
Billed 21.9 MG Unbilled authorized 0.52 MG Apparent loss 1.24 MG Real loss 10.1 MG Unexplained residual

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

Filed history, 2015–2019
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2019 35.2% 33.8 $14,053 closed
2016 8.9% 33.7 $8,182 closed
2015 34.2% 35.1 $17,132 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
Altoga Water Supply CorpCOLLIN County 30.5%
North Farmersville Water Supply CorpCOLLIN County 23.5%
Seis Lagos Utility DistrictCOLLIN County 12.3%
Westminster SUDCOLLIN County 52.3%
Frognot SUDCOLLIN County 16.1%
Verona SUDCOLLIN County 4.9%
FarmersvilleCOLLIN County 22.5%
Culleoka Water Supply CorpCOLLIN County 11.7%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $14,053 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.