Texas · PWS TX1500037 · LLANO County

Lake Buchanan

What Lake Buchanan filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2020–2023 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2023
3.1%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$6,070
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

Lake Buchanan serves 605 retail connections and about 1,815 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

3.1% non-revenue water in FY2023, higher than 2% of the 785 Texas systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 13 points a year, against a Texas median of 5.79, including 10.6% to 26.3% between FY2020 and FY2021. 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, FY2023 · 47.2 MG system input
Billed 45.8 MG Unbilled authorized 0.11 MG Apparent loss 0.46 MG Real loss 0.87 MG

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

Filed history, 2020–2023
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2023 3.1% 47.2 $6,070 closed
2022 16.1% 46.9 $27,510 closed
2021 26.3% 47.3 $24,874 closed
2020 10.6% 39.8 $13,315 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
Llano County MUD 1LLANO County 14.9%
Sunrise Beach VillageLLANO County 26.6%
Kingsland Water Supply Corp Comanche RancheriasLLANO County 11.3%
Paradise Point SubLLANO County 16.0%
Deerhaven WCIDLLANO County 10.4%
Sandy Harbor SubLLANO County 3.8%
Water Works 2 Island LodgesLLANO County 35.9%
Flag Creek RanchLLANO County 17.6%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $6,070 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.