Texas · PWS TX1230009 · JEFFERSON County

Port Arthur

What Port Arthur filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2016–2016 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2016
24.7%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$4.82M
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

Port Arthur serves 22,697 retail connections and about 53,818 people. Because it reports more than 3,300 connections, it is on an annual water loss audit cycle with TWDB.

What the record shows

24.7% non-revenue water in FY2016, higher than 67% of the 742 Texas systems that filed that year.

Water balance, FY2016 · 5,308 MG system input
Billed 3,995 MG Unbilled authorized 269.3 MG Apparent loss 217.7 MG Real loss 826.1 MG

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

Filed history, 2016–2016
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2016 24.7% 5,308 $4.82M 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 — 10,000–50,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
NederlandJEFFERSON County 32.8%
GrovesJEFFERSON County 58.9%
Port NechesJEFFERSON County 24.6%
Beaumont WaterJEFFERSON County 38.5%
Jefferson County WCID 10JEFFERSON County 27.1%
Meeker MWDJEFFERSON County 32.4%
ChinaJEFFERSON County 7.7%
NomeJEFFERSON County 58.5%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $4.82M 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.