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LaFayette
Water-loss briefing
2025 audit. Prepared 2026-10-14. Walker County audit grouping.
| 2025 reported measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Supplied | 1,312.7 million gallons |
| Total losses | 612.0 million gallons / 46.6% |
| Daily total-loss equivalent | 1,676,607 gallons |
| Physical / apparent losses | 603.8 / 8.157 million gallons |
| Leakage / connection / day | 211.8 gallons |
| Leakage / mile / day | 6,068 gallons |
| Data validity | 74 / 100 (documentation, not % accuracy) |
| Reported loss valuation | $140,858 (not guaranteed savings) |
Physical leakage trend: +10.1% since 2024; +60.8% since 2016. Missing years remain missing.
Three questions for the governing body
- Why did reported connections fall by 653 in one year? Did audit boundaries or the counting method change?
Records: Complete annual audit workbooks, Comments and Notes, meter verification, and the current water-loss control program.
- What explains the mains-length revisions and the fall in the variable production-cost input?
Records: Input worksheets, pipe inventory, connection counts, and corresponding financial records.
- What measured leak-reduction work addresses the growth in physical gallons?
Records: Monthly water balances, leak and repair logs, meter tests, targets, budgets and annual progress reports.
2025 EPD compilation, worksheet “2025 Water Audits ”, row 129. Full profile: https://waterloss.elliotpierce.net/utilities/lafayette/. Volume estimates do not establish the cause of outages, recoverable savings or specific rate increases. Complete audit notes and operational records are needed.