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Groveton

What Groveton 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
19.0%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$117,179
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

Groveton serves 650 retail connections and about 918 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

19.0% non-revenue water in FY2023, higher than 58% of the 785 Texas systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is stable, moving 6.65 points a year against a Texas median of 5.79, so the level is more likely to reflect the system than the paperwork.

Water balance, FY2023 · 33.2 MG system input
Billed 26.9 MG Unbilled authorized 0.07 MG Apparent loss 3.46 MG Real loss 2.78 MG

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 19.0% 33.2 $117,179 closed
2022 28.5% 35.1 $117,330 closed
2021 30.2% 34.3 $20,392 closed
2020 38.0% 41.2 $74,376 closed
2019 26.1% 33.6 $39,659 closed
2018 26.3% 35.2 $49,496 closed
2017 20.2% 31.2 $30,687 closed
2016 32.3% 45.5 $71,458 closed
2015 28.4% 43.6 $66,290 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
Trinity Rural Water Supply Corp 1TRINITY County 47.5%
Trinity Rural Water Supply Corp 3TRINITY County 54.7%
Lake Livingston OakridgeTRINITY County 79.9%
Centerville Water Supply CorpTRINITY County 44.1%
Westwood Shores MUDTRINITY County 37.4%
Pennington Water Supply CorpTRINITY County 35.0%
Nogalus Centralia Water Supply CorpTRINITY County 13.6%
Apple Springs Water Supply CorpTRINITY County 25.4%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $117,179 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.

See what the Snapshot delivers Email us about Groveton

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.