Texas · PWS TX0630001 · DICKENS County

Dickens

What Dickens 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
25.5%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$124,234
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

Dickens serves 184 retail connections and about 208 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

25.5% non-revenue water in FY2024, higher than 68% 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 15.2 points a year, against a Texas median of 5.79, including 53.3% to 31.4% between FY2020 and FY2022. 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 · 10.5 MG system input
Billed 7.85 MG Unbilled authorized 0.02 MG Apparent loss 0.54 MG Real loss 2.13 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 25.5% 10.5 $124,234 closed
2023 44.1% 10.5 $32,464 closed
2022 31.4% 9.08 $27,989 closed
2020 53.3% 9.21 $26,463 closed
2019 38.4% 8.41 $1,788 closed
2015 30.5% 8.25 $2,483 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
Valley Water Supply CorpDICKENS County 44.7%
McAdoo Water Supply CorpDICKENS County 19.2%
SpurDICKENS County 47.9%
Morganunder 1,000 connections 8.2%
Blanketunder 1,000 connections 45.4%
Somerville Placeunder 1,000 connections 16.9%
Vinton Hills Subunder 1,000 connections 8.4%
Spring Creek Valley Estatesunder 1,000 connections 58.5%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $124,234 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.