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Chickamauga
Water-loss briefing
2025 audit. Prepared 2026-10-14. Walker County audit grouping.
| 2025 reported measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Supplied | 289.4 million gallons |
| Total losses | 124.8 million gallons / 43.1% |
| Daily total-loss equivalent | 341,794 gallons |
| Physical / apparent losses | 122.3 / 2.451 million gallons |
| Leakage / connection / day | 134.8 gallons |
| Leakage / mile / day | 7,997 gallons |
| Data validity | 52 / 100 (documentation, not % accuracy) |
| Reported loss valuation | $62,762 (not guaranteed savings) |
Physical leakage trend: -7.3% since 2024; -34.6% since 2016. Missing years remain missing.
Three questions for the governing body
- Which repairs, meter changes or audit-input changes explain the decline after 2020?
Records: Complete annual audit workbooks, Comments and Notes, meter verification, and the current water-loss control program.
- How was average pressure measured, and what pressure-management opportunities preserve service and fire protection?
Records: Input worksheets, pipe inventory, connection counts, and corresponding financial records.
- What improvements will move the audit beyond the recent data score of 52?
Records: Monthly water balances, leak and repair logs, meter tests, targets, budgets and annual progress reports.
2025 EPD compilation, worksheet “2025 Water Audits ”, row 49. Full profile: https://waterloss.elliotpierce.net/utilities/chickamauga/. Volume estimates do not establish the cause of outages, recoverable savings or specific rate increases. Complete audit notes and operational records are needed.