Wisconsin · PWS 3490

McFarland Water And Sewer

What McFarland Water And Sewer 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
7.0%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csvSheet1 H313

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 211.9 sheet Sheet1, cell H313 · 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 197.1 sheet Sheet1, cell I313 · 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
The components PSC publishes contradict each other, which is a defect in the export rather than in the filing.

What the record shows

7.0% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 15% of the 562 Wisconsin systems that filed that year.

7.0% 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 7.0%. 4 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 7.0%Wisconsin median 16.6%

Debt outstanding, and what covers the interest

$11.4M of long-term debt outstanding at the end of 2025, across 9 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$11.4M9
2024$6.6M7
2023$5.6M6
2022$6.4M6
2021$3.4M5
2020$3.2M4
2019$3.0M3
2018$2.7M2
2017$3.1M2
2016$2.5M1

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 FY2025 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 · 211.9 MG system input
Billed 197.1 MG Unbilled authorized 4.49 MG Apparent loss 0 MG Real loss 207.4 MG
The components PSC publishes sum to 408.9 MG against the system input it publishes for the same filing, 211.9 MG — a difference of 197.1 MG. Every total in this export is computed from the others, so the parts cannot disagree unless a value was mis-transcribed. This is a defect in the data as published, not in what the utility filed.
Where these volumes come from
  • System input 211.9 MG sheet Sheet1, cell H313 · 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 197.1 MG sheet Sheet1, cell I313 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Unbilled authorized 4.49 MG sheet Sheet1, cell O313 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Apparent loss 0 MG sheet Sheet1, cell R313 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Real loss 207.4 MG sheet Sheet1, cell U313 · 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 7.0% 211.9
2024 5.3% 211.8
2023 10.7% 239.4
2022 11.4% 227.8
2021 12.5% 236
2020 15.2% 233.1
2019 12.4% 209.6
2018 13.8% 204.1
2017 17.1% 215.9
2016 13.9% 218.3

Balance closure is inapplicable on every filed year above, so the column that repeated it is not shown. FY2016–FY2024: PSC derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction. FY2025: 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, “McFarland Water And Sewer — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/wi/mcfarland-water-and-sewer/ (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.