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Harris County MUD 186

What Harris County MUD 186 filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2020 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2020
8.3%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$12,650
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

Harris County MUD 186 serves 848 retail connections and about 4,020 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

8.3% non-revenue water in FY2020, higher than 18% of the 1,775 Texas systems that filed that year.

Water balance, FY2020 · 172 MG system input
Billed 157.8 MG Unbilled authorized 11.3 MG Apparent loss 1.59 MG Real loss 1.27 MG

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

Filed history, 2015–2020
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2020 8.3% 172 $12,650 closed
2015 13.9% 179 $56,779 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
Fort Bend County MUD 124HARRIS County 10.9%
Harris County MUD 217HARRIS County 11.2%
Rolling Fork PUDHARRIS County 48.2%
White Oak Bend MUDHARRIS County 10.9%
Harris County MUD 215HARRIS County 3.3%
Beechnut MUDHARRIS County 31.8%
Westador MUDHARRIS County 12.4%
El Dorado Utility DistrictHARRIS County 6.6%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $12,650 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 Harris County MUD 186

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.