Texas · PWS TX2460139 · WILLIAMSON County

Vista Oaks MUD

What Vista Oaks MUD filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2020 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2020
13.2%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$45,508
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.

Read this page as markdown →

What the filing says

Vista Oaks MUD serves 906 retail connections and about 2,712 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

13.2% non-revenue water in FY2020, higher than 38% of the 1,775 Texas systems that filed that year.

Water balance, FY2020 · 142 MG system input
Billed 123.3 MG Unbilled authorized 1.78 MG Apparent loss 14.1 MG Real loss 2.92 MG

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

Filed history, 2015–2020
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2020 13.2% 142 $45,508 closed
2015 4.8% 117.4 $5,546 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
JarrellWILLIAMSON County 46.4%
Paloma Lake MUD 1WILLIAMSON County 49.8%
Williamson County MUD 11WILLIAMSON County 2.6%
Williamson County MUD 10WILLIAMSON County 5.8%
BartlettWILLIAMSON County 44.3%
GrangerWILLIAMSON County 28.8%
FlorenceWILLIAMSON County 36.4%
ThrallWILLIAMSON County 6.1%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $45,508 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 Vista Oaks MUD

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.