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Dade County Water & Sewer Authority
Water-loss briefing
2025 audit. Prepared 2026-10-14. Dade County audit grouping.
| 2025 reported measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Supplied | 921.5 million gallons |
| Total losses | 320.3 million gallons / 34.8% |
| Daily total-loss equivalent | 877,523 gallons |
| Physical / apparent losses | 317.6 / 2.675 million gallons |
| Leakage / connection / day | 97.9 gallons |
| Leakage / mile / day | 2,391 gallons |
| Data validity | 75 / 100 (documentation, not % accuracy) |
| Reported loss valuation | $316,557 (not guaranteed savings) |
Physical leakage trend: +4.4% since 2024; +55.2% since 2016. Missing years remain missing.
Three questions for the governing body
- Can the full 2018 and 2019 workbooks explain why the compiled fields repeat?
Records: Complete annual audit workbooks, Comments and Notes, meter verification, and the current water-loss control program.
- What accounts for rising leakage faster than the connection count?
Records: Input worksheets, pipe inventory, connection counts, and corresponding financial records.
- How are source production, customer volumes and pressure zones reconciled monthly?
Records: Monthly water balances, leak and repair logs, meter tests, targets, budgets and annual progress reports.
2025 EPD compilation, worksheet “2025 Water Audits ”, row 66. Full profile: https://waterloss.elliotpierce.net/utilities/dade-county-authority/. Volume estimates do not establish the cause of outages, recoverable savings or specific rate increases. Complete audit notes and operational records are needed.