Texas · PWS TX0790216 · FORT BEND County

Harris-fort Bend Counties MUD 1

What Harris-fort Bend Counties MUD 1 filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2015 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2015
9.7%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$27,320
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.

What the filing says

Harris-fort Bend Counties MUD 1 serves 1,256 retail connections and about 3,744 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

9.7% non-revenue water in FY2015, higher than 24% of the 1,728 Texas systems that filed that year.

Water balance, FY2015 · 170.8 MG system input
Billed 154.3 MG Unbilled authorized 2.14 MG Apparent loss 3.58 MG Real loss 10.8 MG

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

Filed history, 2015–2015
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2015 9.7% 170.8 $27,320 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 — 1,000–3,300 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
ArcolaFORT BEND County 22.3%
Fort Bend County MUD 185FORT BEND County 4.2%
Fort Bend County MUD 206 Victorian GardeFORT BEND County 6.8%
Grand Lakes MUD 4FORT BEND County 5.4%
Fort Bend County MUD 128FORT BEND County 1.9%
Fort Bend County MUD 5FORT BEND County 6.4%
Sugar Land River ParkFORT BEND County 37.4%
Fort Bend County MUD 111FORT BEND County 2.2%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $27,320 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-fort Bend Counties MUD 1

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.