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Summerville
Water-loss briefing
2025 audit. Prepared 2026-10-14. Chattooga County audit grouping.
| 2025 reported measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Supplied | 841.2 million gallons |
| Total losses | 314.2 million gallons / 37.4% |
| Daily total-loss equivalent | 860,921 gallons |
| Physical / apparent losses | 283.9 / 30.292 million gallons |
| Leakage / connection / day | 146.8 gallons |
| Leakage / mile / day | 3,890 gallons |
| Data validity | 67 / 100 (documentation, not % accuracy) |
| Reported loss valuation | $399,853 (not guaranteed savings) |
Physical leakage trend: +57.2% since 2024; +240.4% since 2016. Missing years remain missing.
Three questions for the governing body
- What field conditions or audit-input changes explain the 2025 rebound?
Records: Complete annual audit workbooks, Comments and Notes, meter verification, and the current water-loss control program.
- Why does the population entry fall while the connection count stays stable?
Records: Input worksheets, pipe inventory, connection counts, and corresponding financial records.
- What caused the 2023 production-cost spike, and can the financial worksheet reconcile it?
Records: Monthly water balances, leak and repair logs, meter tests, targets, budgets and annual progress reports.
2025 EPD compilation, worksheet “2025 Water Audits ”, row 205. Full profile: https://waterloss.elliotpierce.net/utilities/summerville/. Volume estimates do not establish the cause of outages, recoverable savings or specific rate increases. Complete audit notes and operational records are needed.