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Mount Pleasant

What Mount Pleasant filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2021 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2021
6.7%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$116,957
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

Mount Pleasant serves 6,624 retail connections and about 16,000 people. Because it reports more than 3,300 connections, it is on an annual water loss audit cycle with TWDB.

What the record shows

6.7% non-revenue water in FY2021, higher than 10% of the 827 Texas systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is stable, moving 1.33 points a year against a Texas median of 5.81, so the level is more likely to reflect the system than the paperwork.

Water balance, FY2021 · 1,801 MG system input
Billed 1,681 MG Unbilled authorized 1.47 MG Apparent loss 4.21 MG Real loss 114.5 MG

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

Filed history, 2015–2021
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2021 6.7% 1,801 $116,957 closed
2020 8.6% 1,731 $185,218 closed
2019 6.0% 1,773 $196,569 closed
2016 5.7% 1,870 $132,238 closed
2015 5.1% 1,863 $131,512 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 — 3,300–10,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Tri SUDTITUS County 32.7%
TalcoTITUS County 21.8%
WinfieldTITUS County 12.3%
Millers CoveTITUS County 5.3%
Universal City3,300–10,000 connections 6.5%
Bastrop3,300–10,000 connections 13.7%
Azle3,300–10,000 connections 7.9%
Harris County FWSD 513,300–10,000 connections 14.6%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $116,957 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 Mount Pleasant

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.