Texas · PWS TX0290001 · CALHOUN County

Point Comfort

What Point Comfort 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
45.1%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$54,047
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

Point Comfort serves 317 retail connections and about 834 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

45.1% non-revenue water in FY2015, higher than 94% of the 1,728 Texas systems that filed that year.

Water balance, FY2015 · 75.3 MG system input
Billed 41.3 MG Unbilled authorized 0.94 MG Apparent loss 4.78 MG Real loss 28.2 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 45.1% 75.3 $54,047 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
La Salle WCID 1-aCALHOUN County 11.9%
SunilandingsCALHOUN County 11.1%
Gbra Calhoun County RuralCALHOUN County 27.7%
Port Oconnor Improvement DistrictCALHOUN County 17.1%
Port LavacaCALHOUN County 20.4%
Topsey Water Supply Corpunder 1,000 connections 14.5%
Jones Creek Terraceunder 1,000 connections 7.9%
Gallatin Water Supply Corpunder 1,000 connections 41.3%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $54,047 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 Point Comfort

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.