California · PWS CA2701466

California American Water Company - Ryan Ranch

What California American Water Company - Ryan Ranch filed with DWR about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2017–2020 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2020
13.3%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csvSheet1 AN1819agency source

Where this figure comes from

(system input − billed authorized) ÷ system input × 100

  • system input volume 16.3 sheet Sheet1, cell AN1819 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • billed authorized consumption 14.1 sheet Sheet1, cell AQ1819 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet

Read from data/archive/ca-dwr-water-loss/2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csv (SHA-256 f0dfea5a6026881d), our archived copy of the file as it stood on 2026-09-05. That path is committed to the repository and is not served here. The agency publishes its own current copy at https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/d6cdd89e-49b0-4b1f-86ee-8b7237e5f169/resource/058ac6ca-a8b4-4f28-b6c8-11e48309f3b4/download/ca-retailer-waterlossdata.csv, which may since have been revised.

Annual value of the filed loss
$7,600
Apparent loss is valued at this utility's own reported retail price of water. Real loss is NOT included — DWR publishes a variable production cost whose unit it does not declare, so no dollar figure is put on the leaked water. The real recoverable total is higher than this by an amount this filing does not let anyone state.

2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csvSheet1 DH1819agency source

Where this figure comes from

cost of apparent losses + cost of real losses, both as computed in the filed audit

  • cost of apparent losses, as filed 7,597 sheet Sheet1, cell DH1819

Read from data/archive/ca-dwr-water-loss/2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csv (SHA-256 f0dfea5a6026881d), our archived copy of the file as it stood on 2026-09-05. That path is committed to the repository and is not served here. The agency publishes its own current copy at https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/d6cdd89e-49b0-4b1f-86ee-8b7237e5f169/resource/058ac6ca-a8b4-4f28-b6c8-11e48309f3b4/download/ca-retailer-waterlossdata.csv, which may since have been revised.

What the record shows

13.3% non-revenue water in FY2020, higher than 73% of the 554 California systems that filed that year.

13.3% non-revenue water in FY2020, against 554 California filings for the same yearA strip of 554 filings on a 0 to 64% axis. The median is 9.2%. This system is 13.3%. 6 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 13.3%California median 9.2%
This series is flagged for review. The filed loss percentage has moved an average of 5.6 points a year, against a California median of 2.6, including 6% to 14% between FY2017 and FY2018. The flag is that comparison and nothing more: mean absolute change per year, above the seventy-fifth percentile for this state.

It does not establish what moved. A meter replacement program, a main break, a change of billing system, a corrected prior-year filing and an ordinary reporting error all produce a series that looks like this, and a filed water loss audit does not say which happened. What the flag does say is that the years disagree with each other by more than most of the state's do, so a single year of this series is a weak basis for a decision without the records behind it.

Compliance record

1 violation on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2, of which 1 is health-based. 1 resolved, and 0 still open.

Nothing on the record is open as of 2026Q2.

Counted as distinct violations, not as rows: EPA's export carries one row per enforcement action taken against a violation, so a row count would multiply this system's record several times over. A violation here is a breach of a reporting, monitoring or contaminant-level rule as reported to EPA — it is not a measurement of the water, and this site has none.

Source: US EPA, Safe Drinking Water Information System, via the ECHO national download, 2026Q2. How we hold it.

Who filed this audit

California American Water Company - Monterey District filed 9 separate audits for FY2020, one for each public water system it operates, and this page is one of them. California keys its water loss export on the filing organization and not on the system, so a count of California audits is not a count of independent utilities. California American Water Company - Monterey District made one set of decisions and filed it 9 times. Read any statewide figure with that in mind, including the ones on this site.

Every figure on this page is read from DWR's published export as this site holds it: a 184-column extract of DWR's 190-column file. Six columns naming individuals, including the contact and the third-party validator, are removed before the bytes are committed, so the click path behind each figure lands on the extract and not on DWR's original. The column letters differ from DWR's for that reason.

Water balance, FY2020 · 16.3 MG system input
Billed 14.1 MG Unbilled authorized 0.03 MG Apparent loss 0.29 MG Real loss 1.85 MG

DWR derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so these parts sum to the whole on every filing. What a filing can get wrong is which of these numbers were measured.

Where these volumes come from
  • System input 16.3 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AN1819 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Billed authorized 14.1 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AQ1819 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Unbilled authorized 0.03 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AW1819 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Apparent loss 0.29 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CC1819 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Real loss 1.85 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CE1819 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet

From data/archive/ca-dwr-water-loss/2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csv (SHA-256 f0dfea5a6026881d), retrieved 2026-09-05 from the published source.

Filed history, 2017–2020
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable
2020 13.3% 16.3 $7,600
2019 9.0% 17.8 $4,310
2018 13.7% 18.9 $4,040
2017 5.9% 18.7 $4,120

Balance closure is inapplicable on every filed year above, so the column that repeated it is not shown. DWR derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction. This is neither a pass nor a disclosure gap.

Comparable systems

The same size band — under 1,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
California - American Water Company - Sacramento District - Walnut Groveunder 1,000 connections 12.4% FY2024
California - American Water Company - Monterey District - Chualarunder 1,000 connections 9.1% FY2024
Lake Arrowhead Csd Ca3600087 Deer Lodge Pkunder 1,000 connections 6.4% FY2025
Humboldt Bay Municipal Water Districtunder 1,000 connections 3.3% FY2023
Cws Krv Upper Bodfishunder 1,000 connections 33.3% FY2024
Tahoe City Public Utility Districtunder 1,000 connections 33.9% FY2024
Gswc - Lake Marieunder 1,000 connections 4.6% FY2024
El Dorado Irrigation District - Outingdaleunder 1,000 connections 21.8% FY2024

Where is it going?

This page values the loss at roughly $7,600 a year. It cannot say which accounts, which zones, or which meters, and it cannot say how much of that value is collectable. Answering either takes your billing history, your meter reads, and your production data reconciled against each other.

Our Water Loss Recovery Snapshot is three weeks, one flat fee, and the deliverable is a ranked list of specific accounts and zones with dollars and a confidence on each.

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Sources and corrections. Every figure above is either filed by the utility or computed from filed figures, and each one says which. If a number here looks wrong, tell us: the error may be in the filing, in our reading of it, or in something the export does not show. Send a correction. We will check it against the source, correct the page where it is wrong, and say what changed.

Cite as

Municorn.us, “California American Water Company - Ryan Ranch — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/ca/california-american-water-company-ryan-ranch/ (source filings retrieved 2026-09-05).

CC BY 4.0 — reuse and redistribution are permitted with attribution to Municorn.us and a link to this page. Terms, and the one caveat that must travel with these figures.

"Water loss" is at least three different quantities depending on the jurisdiction, and nothing here supports a comparison between states.