Salem DPW
What Salem DPW filed with MassDEP about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2019–2025 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.
- Unaccounted-for water, FY2024
- 31.0% As accepted by MassDEP, which publishes this percentage and not the volumes behind it.
- unaccounted-for water, as accepted by MassDEP 31 sheet RGPCD UAW, cell O189
- Annual value of the filed loss
- — Not estimable from what MassDEP publishes. A loss percentage cannot be priced without the volume it is a share of.
2026-08-11-7ed15002a7ec.xlsx RGPCD UAW O189agency source
Where this figure comes from
Read from data/archive/massdep/2026-08-11-7ed15002a7ec.xlsx (SHA-256 7ed15002a7ecc43d), our archived copy of the file as it stood on 2026-08-11. That path is committed to the repository and is not served here. The agency publishes its own current copy at https://www.mass.gov/doc/rgpcd-and-uaw-spreadsheet/download, which may since have been revised.
What the filing says
Salem DPW serves an unreported number of retail connections. Municipal suppliers averaging 100,000 gallons a day or more calculate unaccounted-for water and residential gallons per capita per day in the Annual Statistical Report, and both are Water Management Act performance standards. MassDEP publishes those two percentages but not the volumes behind them, which is why this page carries no dollar figure. The volumes are in this system's own ASR filing.
What the record shows
31.0% unaccounted-for water in FY2024, higher than 95% of the 278 Massachusetts systems that filed that year.
- Above the 10% standard in every one of the 6 filed years on record.
- The figure is getting worse across the record.
- The figure moved from 17% to 32% between FY2020 and FY2021.
- 1 of 7 years carry no figure — which by MassDEP's own note means it had insufficient data to calculate one.
Compliance record
EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System carries no violation for this system in the 2026Q2 download.
That is a statement about the record. SDWIS is a state-to-EPA reporting pipeline and its completeness varies by primacy agency and by quarter, so an empty record is not the same as a system that has never been in violation.
| Year | Unaccounted-for water | Residential gal/capita/day |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | |
| 2024 | 31.0% | 50 |
| 2023 | 35.0% | 45.8 |
| 2022 | 38.0% | 47 |
| 2021 | 32.0% | 46 |
| 2020 | 17.0% | 61.5 |
| 2019 | 16.0% |
Standards are 10% unaccounted-for water and 65 gallons per capita per day. A blank is a year MassDEP could not calculate a value — by its own note, a system not fully metered, a master meter malfunction, seasonal population, or no report filed.
Other Massachusetts systems
MassDEP publishes no county or connection count for these systems, so they cannot be ranked against this one. These are other filers, not comparables.
- Dedham Westwood Water District
- Dover Water Company Inc
- Dracut Water Supply District
- Kenwood Water District
- Essex DPW
- Everett
- Framingham
- Georgetown
Where is it going?
This page values the loss. 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.
See what the Snapshot delivers Email us about Salem DPWSources 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.
- MassDEP — DEP-approved performance standards for Massachusetts public water suppliers. Retrieved 2026-08-11 from data/archive/massdep/2026-08-11-7ed15002a7ec.xlsx. https://www.mass.gov/doc/rgpcd-and-uaw-spreadsheet/download