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Elkhorn Light And

What Elkhorn Light And 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
25.7%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csvSheet1 H156

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 359 sheet Sheet1, cell H156 · 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 266.7 sheet Sheet1, cell I156 · 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

25.7% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 77% of the 562 Wisconsin systems that filed that year.

25.7% 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 25.7%. 4 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 25.7%Wisconsin median 16.6%

Debt outstanding, and what covers the interest

$14.3M of long-term debt outstanding at the end of 2025, across 10 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$14.3M10
2024$12.0M8
2023$10.4M6
2022$11.6M6
2021$12.6M5
2020$13.3M4
2019$12.6M3
2018$13.5M3
2017$14.1M3
2016$10.3M2

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 · 359 MG system input
Billed 266.7 MG Unbilled authorized 24.1 MG Apparent loss 0 MG Real loss 68.3 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 359 MG sheet Sheet1, cell H156 · 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 266.7 MG sheet Sheet1, cell I156 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Unbilled authorized 24.1 MG sheet Sheet1, cell O156 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Apparent loss 0 MG sheet Sheet1, cell R156 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Real loss 68.3 MG sheet Sheet1, cell U156 · 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 25.7% 359
2024 17.8% 321.6
2023 22.3% 345.1
2022 23.5% 340.4
2021 20.7% 338.8
2020 15.0% 320.6
2019 22.3% 332
2018 19.8% 331.2
2017 12.8% 300.6
2016 18.2% 323

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, “Elkhorn Light And — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/wi/elkhorn-light-and/ (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.