Texas · PWS TX0140035 · BELL County

Salado Water Supply Corp

What Salado Water Supply Corp filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2024 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2024
31.1%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$439,173
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

Salado Water Supply Corp serves 3,610 retail connections and about 10,800 people. Because it reports more than 3,300 connections, it is on an annual water loss audit cycle with TWDB.

What the record shows

31.1% non-revenue water in FY2024, higher than 76% of the 908 Texas systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 9.44 points a year, against a Texas median of 5.79, including 37.7% to 20.9% between FY2018 and FY2023. 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, FY2024 · 737.9 MG system input
Billed 508.2 MG Unbilled authorized 1.47 MG Apparent loss 12.9 MG Real loss 215.3 MG

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

Filed history, 2015–2024
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2024 31.1% 737.9 $439,173 closed
2023 20.9% 686.6 $276,619 closed
2018 37.7% 526 $128,670 closed
2017 31.7% 563.9 $1.4M closed
2016 32.9% 509.9 $147,879 closed
2015 19.8% 416.8 $75,966 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
Bell County WCID 3BELL County 25.4%
439 Water Supply CorpBELL County 20.2%
Bell Milam Falls Water Supply CorpBELL County 42.4%
Morgans Point ResortBELL County 36.6%
Moffat Water Supply CorpBELL County 24.7%
Dog Ridge Water Supply CorpBELL County 36.4%
West Bell County Water Supply CorpBELL County 20.1%
TroyBELL County 42.3%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $439,173 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.