Wisconsin · PWS 1675

Downsville Sanitary District No 1

What Downsville Sanitary District No 1 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
19.3%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csvSheet1 H141

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 4.89 sheet Sheet1, cell H141 · 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 3.95 sheet Sheet1, cell I141 · 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

19.3% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 58% of the 562 Wisconsin systems that filed that year.

19.3% 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 19.3%. 4 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 19.3%Wisconsin median 16.6%
The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 10.1 points a year, against a Wisconsin median of 5.1, including 55% to 23% between FY2018 and FY2019. 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.

Debt outstanding, and what covers the interest

$430,043 of long-term debt outstanding at the end of 2025, across 2 bond issues. This is principal outstanding on a combined water and sewer utility's balance sheet, which the Commission files as one.

Principal outstanding at the end of each year, as filed
YearDebt outstandingIssues
2025$430,0432
2024$439,5822
2023$448,7612
2022$457,5892
2021$466,1772
2020$474,4352
2019$482,3722
2018$489,9972
2017$314,6202
2016$327,1492

This utility's balance sheet and income statement are water and sewer, 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.

A filed value that cannot be true.
  • The components PSC publishes for FY2019 do not sum to the system input it publishes for the same filing — a defect in the published export, not in what the utility filed.

Each is reproduced exactly as filed and excluded from every figure computed on this page. A number that contradicts its own audit is a finding about the filing, not a gap in ours.

Water balance, FY2025 · 4.89 MG system input
Billed 3.95 MG Unbilled authorized 0.46 MG Apparent loss 0 MG Real loss 0.49 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 4.89 MG sheet Sheet1, cell H141 · 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 3.95 MG sheet Sheet1, cell I141 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Unbilled authorized 0.46 MG sheet Sheet1, cell O141 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Apparent loss 0 MG sheet Sheet1, cell R141 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Real loss 0.49 MG sheet Sheet1, cell U141 · 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 19.3% 4.89
2024 19.0% 4.9
2023 20.9% 4.94
2022 19.4% 4.87
2021 6.2% 5.19
2020 25.2% 5.59
2019 22.9% 4.89
2018 55.3% 8.04
2017 63.7% 10.3
2016 51.6% 7.52

Balance closure is inapplicable on every filed year above, so the column that repeated it is not shown. FY2016, FY2017, FY2018, FY2020, FY2021, FY2022, FY2023, FY2024, FY2025: PSC derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction. FY2019: The components PSC publishes contradict each other, which is a defect in the export rather than in the filing. This is neither a pass nor a disclosure gap.

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.

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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, “Downsville Sanitary District No 1 — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/wi/downsville-sanitary-district-no-1/ (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.