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Catoosa Utility District
Water-loss briefing
2025 audit. Prepared 2026-10-14. Catoosa County audit grouping.
| 2025 reported measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Supplied | 1,837.4 million gallons |
| Total losses | 230.3 million gallons / 12.5% |
| Daily total-loss equivalent | 631,053 gallons |
| Physical / apparent losses | 217.7 / 12.626 million gallons |
| Leakage / connection / day | 26.3 gallons |
| Leakage / mile / day | 1,084 gallons |
| Data validity | 73 / 100 (documentation, not % accuracy) |
| Reported loss valuation | $204,266 (not guaranteed savings) |
Physical leakage trend: -52.3% since 2024; -35.9% since 2016. Missing years remain missing.
Three questions for the governing body
- Which repairs, operational changes or meter adjustments produced the 238.3-million-gallon decline?
Records: Complete annual audit workbooks, Comments and Notes, meter verification, and the current water-loss control program.
- What is the correct service-population figure, and how was it entered?
Records: Input worksheets, pipe inventory, connection counts, and corresponding financial records.
- What audit notes and source-meter tests support the below-one leakage index?
Records: Monthly water balances, leak and repair logs, meter tests, targets, budgets and annual progress reports.
2025 EPD compilation, worksheet “2025 Water Audits ”, row 42. Full profile: https://waterloss.elliotpierce.net/utilities/catoosa-utility-district/. Volume estimates do not establish the cause of outages, recoverable savings or specific rate increases. Complete audit notes and operational records are needed.