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Cumberland Municipal

What Cumberland Municipal filed with PSC about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2016–2025 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2025
12.5%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csvSheet1 H121

Where this figure comes from

(system input − billed authorized) ÷ system input × 100

  • system input volume 171.7 sheet Sheet1, cell H121 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000 · net of water sold to wholesale customers, which is the volume entering this utility's own distribution system
  • billed authorized consumption 150.3 sheet Sheet1, cell I121 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000

From data/archive/wi-psc-water-audit/2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csv (SHA-256 5ef7d6e2fdbdac2b), retrieved 2026-09-08 from the published source.

Recoverable annually
Not estimable from what PSC publishes. A loss percentage cannot be priced without the volume it is a share of.
Balance check
inapplicable
PSC derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction.

What the record shows

12.5% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 36% of the 562 Wisconsin systems that filed that year.

12.5% non-revenue water in FY2025, against 562 Wisconsin filings for the same yearA strip of 562 filings on a 0 to 64% axis. The median is 16.6%. This system is 12.5%. 4 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 12.5%Wisconsin median 16.6%

Debt outstanding, and what covers the interest

$3.5M of long-term debt outstanding at the end of 2025, across 3 bond issues. This is principal outstanding on a combined water and electric utility's balance sheet, which the Commission files as one.

Principal outstanding at the end of each year, as filed
YearDebt outstandingIssues
2025$3.5M3
2024$3.2M2
2023$3.3M2
2022$3.0M4
2021$789,3812
2020$874,3792
2019$958,0872
2018$1.0M2
2017$1.1M2
2016$1.2M2

This utility's balance sheet and income statement are water and electric, filed as one. A coverage ratio computed from them would put one service's revenue over another service's interest.

Figures are as filed with the Commission under Wis. Admin. Code ch. PSC 185 and are not audited as presented. Nothing here is a credit opinion, an implied rating, or a judgement that any figure is sufficient. Source: Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, annual report financial schedules, 2016–2025, retrieved 2026-09-12.

Water balance, FY2025 · 171.7 MG system input
Billed 150.3 MG Unbilled authorized 1.22 MG Apparent loss 0 MG Real loss 20.2 MG

PSC derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so these parts sum to the whole on every filing. What a filing can get wrong is which of these numbers were measured.

Where these volumes come from
  • System input 171.7 MG sheet Sheet1, cell H121 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000 · net of water sold to wholesale customers, which is the volume entering this utility's own distribution system
  • Billed authorized 150.3 MG sheet Sheet1, cell I121 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Unbilled authorized 1.22 MG sheet Sheet1, cell O121 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Apparent loss 0 MG sheet Sheet1, cell R121 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Real loss 20.2 MG sheet Sheet1, cell U121 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000

From data/archive/wi-psc-water-audit/2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csv (SHA-256 5ef7d6e2fdbdac2b), retrieved 2026-09-08 from the published source.

Filed history, 2016–2025
Year NRW Input (MG)
2025 12.5% 171.7
2024 11.1% 131.7
2023 14.9% 173.1
2022 12.7% 161.7
2021 11.5% 149.3
2020 11.8% 161.9
2019 14.1% 169.2
2018 18.4% 181.8
2017 16.5% 186.4
2016 10.9% 175.5

Other Wisconsin systems

PSC publishes no county or connection count for these systems, so they cannot be ranked against this one. These are other filers, not comparables.

Where is it going?

This page says how much. 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.

Cite as

Municorn.us, “Cumberland Municipal — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/wi/cumberland-municipal/ (source filings retrieved 2026-09-08).

CC BY 4.0 — reuse and redistribution are permitted with attribution to Municorn.us and a link to this page. Terms, and the one caveat that must travel with these figures.

"Water loss" is at least three different quantities depending on the jurisdiction, and nothing here supports a comparison between states.