Fairchild Municipal Water
What Fairchild Municipal Water 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
- 27.7% Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
- system input volume 8.24 sheet Sheet1, cell H165 · 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 5.95 sheet Sheet1, cell I165 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
- 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.
2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csvSheet1 H165
Where this figure comes from
(system input − billed authorized) ÷ system input × 100
From data/archive/wi-psc-water-audit/2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csv (SHA-256 5ef7d6e2fdbdac2b), retrieved 2026-09-08 from the published source.
What the record shows
27.7% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 80% of the 562 Wisconsin systems that filed that year.
- The figure is improving across the record.
Debt outstanding, and what covers the interest
$718,037 of long-term debt outstanding at the end of 2025, across 2 bond issues. This is principal outstanding on the water utility's own balance sheet, on the Commission's own test: it files no electric operating report.
| Year | Debt outstanding | Issues | Net revenue | Interest | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $718,037 | 2 | $28,664 | $22,042 | 1.30 |
| 2024 | $737,336 | 2 | $24,101 | $22,483 | 1.07 |
| 2023 | $756,051 | 2 | $45,498 | $23,054 | 1.97 |
| 2022 | $774,199 | 2 | $61,827 | $23,820 | 2.60 |
| 2021 | $789,855 | 3 | $69,828 | $25,056 | 2.79 |
| 2020 | $817,666 | 3 | $67,248 | $26,420 | 2.54 |
| 2019 | $842,853 | 3 | $73,515 | $27,758 | 2.65 |
| 2018 | $867,402 | 3 | $68,230 | $29,054 | 2.35 |
| 2017 | $891,336 | 3 | $15,005 | $28,147 | 0.53 |
| 2016 | $914,668 | 3 | $31,147 | $27,325 | 1.14 |
1.30 — what Fairchild Municipal Water's net revenue was against its interest in 2025.
Net revenue over interest: the Commission's account 400 (operating revenue), less 401–402 (operation and maintenance), less 408 (taxes), divided by 427 plus 430 plus 431 (interest on long-term debt, on municipal advances, and other). Depreciation is filed under 403 and is not deducted, because what pays interest is cash.
This is not a debt service coverage ratio and must not be read as one. Debt service is principal repaid plus interest, and the principal repaid in a year is not filed anywhere in this source. A covenant ratio is defined in the bond documents, which set out their own revenues, their own operating expenses and their own exclusions. Two utilities with identical filed figures can have different covenant ratios.
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.
- The components PSC publishes for FY2022 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.
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 8.24 MG sheet Sheet1, cell H165 · 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 5.95 MG sheet Sheet1, cell I165 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
- Unbilled authorized 0.09 MG sheet Sheet1, cell O165 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
- Apparent loss 0.02 MG sheet Sheet1, cell R165 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
- Real loss 2.18 MG sheet Sheet1, cell U165 · 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.
| Year | NRW | Input (MG) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27.7% | 8.24 |
| 2024 | 21.8% | 7.93 |
| 2023 | 25.6% | 8.03 |
| 2022 | 20.7% | 7.7 |
| 2021 | 20.6% | 8.14 |
| 2020 | 29.8% | 8.41 |
| 2019 | 26.2% | 7.95 |
| 2018 | 27.3% | 9.41 |
| 2017 | 30.8% | 8.71 |
| 2016 | 25.5% | 8.7 |
Balance closure is inapplicable on every filed year above, so the column that repeated it is not shown. FY2016, FY2017, FY2018, FY2019, FY2020, FY2021, FY2023, FY2024, FY2025: PSC derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction. FY2022: 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.
- Whiting Municipal Water And Sewer
- Williams Bay Municipal Water
- Wilson Municipal Water
- Wilton Municipal Water And Sewer
- Wind Point Municipal Water
- Windsor Sanitary District Number One
- Windsor Water
- Winnebago Area Sanitary District
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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See what the Snapshot delivers Email us about Fairchild Municipal WaterSources 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.
- Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, municipal annual report Schedule W-15. Retrieved 2026-09-08 from data/archive/wi-psc-water-audit/2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csv. https://apps.psc.wi.gov/ARS/WEGSqueries/default.aspx