Texas · PWS TX2190003 · SWISHER County

Tulia Municipal

What Tulia Municipal filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2018–2018 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2018
25.4%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$88,106
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

Tulia Municipal serves 1,957 retail connections and about 4,967 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

25.4% non-revenue water in FY2018, higher than 69% of the 688 Texas systems that filed that year.

Water balance, FY2018 · 284.8 MG system input
Billed 212.5 MG Unbilled authorized 9.85 MG Apparent loss 19.2 MG Real loss 43.2 MG

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

Filed history, 2018–2018
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2018 25.4% 284.8 $88,106 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
Brushy Creek Water Supply Corp1,000–3,300 connections 34.2%
Aledo1,000–3,300 connections 18.5%
Crane1,000–3,300 connections 25.5%
Farmersville1,000–3,300 connections 22.5%
Harris County MUD 701,000–3,300 connections 6.6%
Harris County MUD 651,000–3,300 connections 4.6%
Travis County WCID 181,000–3,300 connections 5.1%
Pearland MUD 11,000–3,300 connections 40.9%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $88,106 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.