Texas · PWS TX2430005 · WICHITA County

Burkburnett

What Burkburnett filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2023 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2023
32.2%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$238,881
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

Burkburnett serves 5,102 retail connections and about 10,987 people. Because it reports more than 3,300 connections, it is on an annual water loss audit cycle with TWDB.

What the record shows

32.2% non-revenue water in FY2023, higher than 83% of the 785 Texas systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 11.2 points a year, against a Texas median of 5.79, including 14.5% to 36.4% between FY2017 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, FY2023 · 393.1 MG system input
Billed 266.5 MG Unbilled authorized 2.91 MG Apparent loss 15.4 MG Real loss 108.3 MG Unexplained residual

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

Filed history, 2015–2023
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2023 32.2% 393.1 $238,881 closed
2021 13.3% 377.7 $174,583 closed
2020 19.3% 395.5 $190,350 closed
2019 36.4% 397.5 $249,167 closed
2017 14.5% 368.1 $182,850 closed
2016 12.2% 331.3 $57,693 closed
2015 11.5% 322.3 $72,959 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 — 3,300–10,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Iowa ParkWICHITA County 17.5%
Wichita Valley Water Supply CorpWICHITA County 13.1%
ElectraWICHITA County 39.2%
Pleasant ValleyWICHITA County 19.3%
Wichita FallsWICHITA County 7.7%
Bear Creek SUD3,300–10,000 connections 14.7%
Red Oak3,300–10,000 connections 26.1%
Pecan Grove MUD3,300–10,000 connections 10.0%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $238,881 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.