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Fort Oglethorpe
Water-loss briefing
2025 audit. Prepared 2026-10-14. Catoosa County audit grouping.
| 2025 reported measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Supplied | 301.1 million gallons |
| Total losses | 108.8 million gallons / 36.1% |
| Daily total-loss equivalent | 298,001 gallons |
| Physical / apparent losses | 107.8 / 0.959 million gallons |
| Leakage / connection / day | 95.4 gallons |
| Leakage / mile / day | 7,773 gallons |
| Data validity | 51 / 100 (documentation, not % accuracy) |
| Reported loss valuation | $220,908 (not guaranteed savings) |
Physical leakage trend: -6.4% since 2024; -13.8% since 2016. Missing years remain missing.
Three questions for the governing body
- Are the earlier production-cost values in a different unit than the later entries?
Records: Complete annual audit workbooks, Comments and Notes, meter verification, and the current water-loss control program.
- What explains the low 2023 loss estimate and subsequent rebound?
Records: Input worksheets, pipe inventory, connection counts, and corresponding financial records.
- How are monthly wholesale meter volumes reconciled with customer consumption?
Records: Monthly water balances, leak and repair logs, meter tests, targets, budgets and annual progress reports.
2025 EPD compilation, worksheet “2025 Water Audits ”, row 93. Full profile: https://waterloss.elliotpierce.net/utilities/fort-oglethorpe/. Volume estimates do not establish the cause of outages, recoverable savings or specific rate increases. Complete audit notes and operational records are needed.