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Ringgold
Water-loss briefing
2025 audit. Prepared 2026-10-14. Catoosa County audit grouping.
| 2025 reported measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Supplied | 192.6 million gallons |
| Total losses | 26.9 million gallons / 13.9% |
| Daily total-loss equivalent | 73,563 gallons |
| Physical / apparent losses | 21.0 / 5.869 million gallons |
| Leakage / connection / day | 40.5 gallons |
| Leakage / mile / day | 1,903 gallons |
| Data validity | 60 / 100 (documentation, not % accuracy) |
| Reported loss valuation | $80,283 (not guaranteed savings) |
Physical leakage trend: +47.0% since 2024; +180.4% since 2016. Missing years remain missing.
Three questions for the governing body
- What customer-meter tests or revised defaults explain the apparent-loss jump?
Records: Complete annual audit workbooks, Comments and Notes, meter verification, and the current water-loss control program.
- What explains the production-cost step change beginning in 2023?
Records: Input worksheets, pipe inventory, connection counts, and corresponding financial records.
- Was the 2017 audit omitted from the compilation, or is there a separate original workbook?
Records: Monthly water balances, leak and repair logs, meter tests, targets, budgets and annual progress reports.
2025 EPD compilation, worksheet “2025 Water Audits ”, row 182. Full profile: https://waterloss.elliotpierce.net/utilities/ringgold/. Volume estimates do not establish the cause of outages, recoverable savings or specific rate increases. Complete audit notes and operational records are needed.