Texas · PWS TX1450001 · LEON County

Buffalo

What Buffalo filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2024 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2024
44.5%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$26,031
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

Buffalo serves 1,150 retail connections and about 1,778 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

44.5% non-revenue water in FY2024, higher than 90% of the 908 Texas systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 13.2 points a year, against a Texas median of 5.79, including 3.0% to 44.5% between FY2023 and FY2024. 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, FY2024 · 118.1 MG system input
Billed 65.6 MG Unbilled authorized 0.16 MG Apparent loss 0.39 MG Real loss 52 MG

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

Filed history, 2015–2024
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2024 44.5% 118.1 $26,031 closed
2023 3.0% 128.9 $8,325 closed
2020 20.5% 114.2 $46,585 closed
2018 28.0% 120.7 $50,763 closed
2017 25.7% 113.6 $28,837 closed
2016 26.4% 124.1 $38,209 closed
2015 17.1% 126.9 $45,714 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 — 1,000–3,300 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Southeast Water Supply Corp System 1LEON County 27.7%
CentervilleLEON County 16.6%
Flo Community Water Supply CorpLEON County 33.7%
Concord-robbins Water Supply CorpLEON County 17.8%
Hilltop Lakes Water Supply CorpLEON County 14.6%
Southeast Water Supply Corp System 2LEON County 39.8%
MarquezLEON County 3.9%
Southeast Water Supply Corp System 3LEON County 10.7%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $26,031 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.