Wisconsin · PWS 1770

Elcho Sanitary District No 1

What Elcho 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
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csvSheet1 H153

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 5.62 sheet Sheet1, cell H153 · 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 5.78 sheet Sheet1, cell I153 · 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
insufficient
The filing does not publish enough components to decompose system input.

What the record shows

2.8% non-revenue water in FY2023, higher than 6% of the 563 Wisconsin systems that filed that year.

2.8% non-revenue water in FY2023, against 563 Wisconsin filings for the same yearA strip of 563 filings on a 0 to 64% axis. The median is 16.3%. This system is 2.8%. 6 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 2.8%Wisconsin median 16.3%
The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 8.3 points a year, against a Wisconsin median of 5.1, including 0% to 17% 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

$431,100 of long-term debt outstanding at the end of 2025, across 1 bond issue. 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$431,1001
2024$443,8001
2023$456,3001
2022$468,4001
2021$480,5001
2020$492,1001
2019$503,5001
2018$514,6001
2017$525,5001
2016$536,1001

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.

Water balance, FY2025

This filing reports totals but not the components a balance is made of, so the identity input = billed + unbilled authorized + apparent loss + real loss has nothing to be tested against. Absent: real loss.

insufficient · not checkable

This is recorded as unverifiable and not reported as a pass. The difference is the one between a disclosure gap and a clean bill of health.

Filed history, 2016–2025
Year NRW Input (MG) Balance
2025 5.62 insufficient
2024 5.5 insufficient
2023 2.8% 5.56 inapplicable
2022 9.9% 5.9 inapplicable
2021 9.7% 6.55 inapplicable
2020 26.2% 7.02 inapplicable
2019 17.0% 6.67 inapplicable
2018 0.2% 6 inapplicable
2017 5.6% 6.83 inapplicable
2016 2.5% 7.06 inapplicable

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.

See what the Snapshot delivers Email us about Elcho Sanitary District No 1

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, “Elcho Sanitary District No 1 — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/wi/elcho-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.