Georgia · PWS GA1650000 · JENKINS County

Millen

What Millen filed with EPD about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2012–2025 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2025
9.3%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx2025 Water Audits H156agency source

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 200.2 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H156 · million gallons per year, declared in the header through 2020 and settled for 2021-2025 by EPD's own cost arithmetic and by continuity across the change
  • billed authorized consumption 181.5 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I156 · billed metered plus billed unmetered

Read from data/archive/ga-epd-water-loss/2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx (SHA-256 69903a9418bc6d60), our archived copy of the file as it stood on 2026-09-06. That path is committed to the repository and is not served here. The agency publishes its own current copy at https://epd.georgia.gov/document/document/2025-water-audits/download, which may since have been revised.

Annual value of the filed loss
$30,600
Apparent loss is valued at this utility's own reported retail price of water. Real loss is NOT included — EPD 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.

2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx2025 Water Audits Z156agency 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 30,564 sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell Z156

Read from data/archive/ga-epd-water-loss/2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx (SHA-256 69903a9418bc6d60), our archived copy of the file as it stood on 2026-09-06. That path is committed to the repository and is not served here. The agency publishes its own current copy at https://epd.georgia.gov/document/document/2025-water-audits/download, which may since have been revised.

What the record shows

9.3% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 10% of the 228 Georgia systems that filed that year.

9.3% non-revenue water in FY2025, against 228 Georgia filings for the same yearA strip of 228 filings on a 0 to 64% axis. The median is 26.4%. This system is 9.3%. 4 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 9.3%Georgia median 26.4%
This series is flagged for review. The filed loss percentage has moved an average of 9.5 points a year, against a Georgia median of 4.9, including 34% to 9% between FY2024 and FY2025. 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

78 violations on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2, of which 2 are health-based. 12 resolved, 65 archived, and 1 still open.

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.

A filed value that cannot be true.
  • FY2015 reports a leakage index of 0.07, which would mean less real loss than the unavoidable minimum the same audit computes for this network.

Each is reproduced exactly as filed and excluded from every figure computed on this page. A number that contradicts its own audit is a finding about the filing, not a gap in ours.

Water balance, FY2025 · 200.2 MG system input
Billed 181.5 MG Unbilled authorized 5.95 MG Apparent loss 8.67 MG Real loss 4.07 MG

EPD 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 200.2 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell H156 · million gallons per year, declared in the header through 2020 and settled for 2021-2025 by EPD's own cost arithmetic and by continuity across the change
  • Billed authorized 181.5 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell I156 · billed metered plus billed unmetered
  • Unbilled authorized 5.95 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell K156 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered
  • Apparent loss 8.67 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell O156
  • Real loss 4.07 MG sheet 2025 Water Audits , cell P156

From data/archive/ga-epd-water-loss/2026-09-06-69903a9418bc.xlsx (SHA-256 69903a9418bc6d60), retrieved 2026-09-06 from the published source.

Filed history, 2012–2025
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable
2025 9.3% 200.2 $30,600
2024 34.3% 184.6 $20,100
2023 32.1% 185 $13,400
2022 32.8% 198.7 $15,300
2021 28.0% 174.4 $13,800
2020 18.7% 185 $16,300
2019 24.2% 197.5 $16,700
2018 20.2% 175.5 $15,400
2017 23.8% 178.5 $15,100
2016 17.9% 178 $14,600
2015 10.2% 166.4 $15,000
2014 25.5% 183.8 $13,800
2013 48.9% 179.4 $9,840
2012 32.7% 157.5 $11,900

Balance closure is inapplicable on every filed year above, so the column that repeated it is not shown. EPD 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 — 1,000–3,300 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Blairsville1,000–3,300 connections 44.0% FY2025
Cochran1,000–3,300 connections 42.9% FY2025
Dawsonville1,000–3,300 connections 16.7% FY2025
Hahira1,000–3,300 connections 19.3% FY2025
Cusseta And Chattahoochee County (unified Government)1,000–3,300 connections 43.7% FY2019
Baldwin1,000–3,300 connections 56.1% FY2025
Hawkinsville1,000–3,300 connections 28.9% FY2025
Glennville1,000–3,300 connections 13.8% FY2020

Where is it going?

This page values the loss at roughly $30,600 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.

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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, “Millen — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/ga/millen/ (source filings retrieved 2026-09-06).

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.