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Greenwood Utility District

What Greenwood Utility District 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
8.6%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$102,022
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

Greenwood Utility District serves 3,565 retail connections and about 10,536 people. Because it reports more than 3,300 connections, it is on an annual water loss audit cycle with TWDB.

What the record shows

8.6% non-revenue water in FY2024, higher than 16% 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 17.6 points a year, against a Texas median of 5.79, including 51.2% to 12.3% between FY2017 and FY2023. 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 · 250.6 MG system input
Billed 229.1 MG Unbilled authorized 5 MG Apparent loss 1.15 MG Real loss 15.4 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 8.6% 250.6 $102,022 closed
2023 12.3% 286 $144,971 closed
2017 51.2% 337.1 $544,147 closed
2016 67.2% 467.6 $962,545 closed
2015 55.6% 290.7 $495,101 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
Harris County MUD 278HARRIS County 9.4%
Harris County MUD 285HARRIS County 10.8%
Harris County MUD 102HARRIS County 19.9%
Harris County MUD 49HARRIS County 7.8%
Harris County MUD 230HARRIS County 7.7%
Harris County WCID 109HARRIS County 11.7%
Galena ParkHARRIS County 24.2%
Hunters Glen MUDHARRIS County 16.5%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $102,022 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.

Our Water Loss Recovery Snapshot is three weeks, one flat fee, and the deliverable is a ranked list of specific accounts and zones with dollars and a confidence on each.

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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.