Texas · PWS TX0290071 · CALHOUN County

La Salle WCID 1-a

What La Salle WCID 1-a filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2022 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2022
11.9%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$32,742
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

La Salle WCID 1-a serves 145 retail connections and about 242 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

11.9% non-revenue water in FY2022, higher than 32% of the 740 Texas systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 9.49 points a year, against a Texas median of 5.79, including 16.8% to 35.9% between FY2019 and FY2020. 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, FY2022 · 28 MG system input
Billed 24.7 MG Unbilled authorized 0.06 MG Apparent loss 0.63 MG Real loss 2.64 MG Unexplained residual

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

Filed history, 2015–2022
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2022 11.9% 28 $32,742 closed
2021 22.0% 20.2 $30,056 closed
2020 35.9% 24.4 $40,639 closed
2019 16.8% 16.3 $20,056 closed
2018 12.7% 16.8 $18,392 closed
2017 10.5% 18.2 $10,410 closed
2016 9.3% 15.1 $4,720 closed
2015 25.2% 15.2 $8,669 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
SunilandingsCALHOUN County 11.1%
Point ComfortCALHOUN County 45.1%
Gbra Calhoun County RuralCALHOUN County 27.7%
Port Oconnor Improvement DistrictCALHOUN County 17.1%
Port LavacaCALHOUN County 20.4%
Rio Villa Water Supply Corpunder 1,000 connections 12.8%
Ramblewood Utility & Water Supply Corpunder 1,000 connections 9.2%
Trinity Rural Water Supply Corp 2under 1,000 connections 50.0%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $32,742 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.