Texas · PWS TX2150007 · STEPHENS County

Stephens Regional SUD

What Stephens Regional SUD filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2023 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2023
35.1%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$89,626
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

Stephens Regional SUD serves 1,649 retail connections and about 2,579 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

35.1% non-revenue water in FY2023, higher than 87% of the 785 Texas systems that filed that year.

Water balance, FY2023 · 137 MG system input
Billed 89 MG Unbilled authorized 11.7 MG Apparent loss 3.2 MG Real loss 33.1 MG

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

Filed history, 2015–2023
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2023 35.1% 137 $89,626 closed
2022 36.5% 138.2 $74,312 closed
2021 43.9% 129.2 $84,244 closed
2020 38.0% 128.6 $37,589 closed
2019 39.6% 119.8 $40,111 closed
2018 36.3% 123.8 $60,303 closed
2017 32.8% 115.2 $79,079 closed
2016 35.7% 103.8 $49,289 closed
2015 30.6% 100.6 $22,662 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 — 1,000–3,300 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
BreckenridgeSTEPHENS County 29.3%
West Harris County MUD 2 Chase1,000–3,300 connections 4.6%
Caddo Mills1,000–3,300 connections 29.4%
Mason1,000–3,300 connections 10.1%
Montgomery County MUD 891,000–3,300 connections 6.0%
Harris County MUD 641,000–3,300 connections 6.0%
Winnsboro1,000–3,300 connections 9.0%
Brazoria County MUD 211,000–3,300 connections 14.5%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $89,626 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.