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Adell Municipal Sewer And Water

What Adell Municipal Sewer And Water filed with PSC about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2016–2025 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2025
13.4%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csvSheet1 H4agency source

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 14 sheet Sheet1, cell H4 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000 · net of water sold to wholesale customers, which is the volume entering this utility's own distribution system
  • billed authorized consumption 12.1 sheet Sheet1, cell I4 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000

Read from data/archive/wi-psc-water-audit/2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csv (SHA-256 5ef7d6e2fdbdac2b), our archived copy of the file as it stood on 2026-09-08. That path is committed to the repository and is not served here. The agency publishes its own current copy at https://apps.psc.wi.gov/ARS/WEGSqueries/default.aspx, which may since have been revised.

Annual value of the filed loss
Not estimable from what PSC publishes. A loss percentage cannot be priced without the volume it is a share of.

What the record shows

13.4% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 40% of the 562 Wisconsin systems that filed that year.

13.4% non-revenue water in FY2025, against 562 Wisconsin filings for the same yearA strip of 562 filings on a 0 to 64% axis. The median is 16.6%. This system is 13.4%. 4 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 13.4%Wisconsin median 16.6%
This series is flagged for review. The filed loss percentage has moved an average of 12.5 points a year, against a Wisconsin median of 5.1, including 3% to 28% between FY2022 and FY2023. 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.

Debt outstanding, and what covers the interest

$689,346 of long-term debt outstanding at the end of 2025, across 1 bond issue. This is principal outstanding on a combined water and sewer utility's balance sheet, which the Commission files as one.

Principal outstanding at the end of each year, as filed
YearDebt outstandingIssues
2025$689,3461
2024$744,1772
2023$798,1542
2022$850,3652
2021$901,7542
2020$952,3362
2019$942,3362
2018$219,6412
2017$72,5021
2016$85,5151

This utility's balance sheet and income statement are water and sewer, filed as one. A coverage ratio computed from them would put one service's revenue over another service's interest.

Figures are as filed with the Commission under Wis. Admin. Code ch. PSC 185 and are not audited as presented. Nothing here is a credit opinion, an implied rating, or a judgement that any figure is sufficient. Source: Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, annual report financial schedules, 2016–2025, retrieved 2026-09-12.

Water balance, FY2025 · 14 MG system input
Billed 12.1 MG Unbilled authorized 0.01 MG Apparent loss 0 MG Real loss 1.87 MG

PSC 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 14 MG sheet Sheet1, cell H4 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000 · net of water sold to wholesale customers, which is the volume entering this utility's own distribution system
  • Billed authorized 12.1 MG sheet Sheet1, cell I4 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Unbilled authorized 0.01 MG sheet Sheet1, cell O4 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Apparent loss 0 MG sheet Sheet1, cell R4 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Real loss 1.87 MG sheet Sheet1, cell U4 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000

From data/archive/wi-psc-water-audit/2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csv (SHA-256 5ef7d6e2fdbdac2b), retrieved 2026-09-08 from the published source.

Filed history, 2016–2025
Year NRW Input (MG) Balance
2025 13.4% 14 inapplicable
2024 10.0% 13.5 inapplicable
2023 27.8% 14 inapplicable
2022 2.6% 11.7 inapplicable
2021 11.4% 14.2 inapplicable
2020 15.1% 20 inapplicable
2019 33.8% 13.8 inapplicable
2018 10.6 insufficient
2017 14.1% 11.5 inapplicable
2016 1.7% 9.65 inapplicable

Other Wisconsin systems

PSC publishes no county or connection count for these systems, so they cannot be ranked against this one. These are other filers, not comparables.

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 Adell Municipal Sewer And Water

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, “Adell Municipal Sewer And Water — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/wi/adell-municipal-sewer-and-water/ (source filings retrieved 2026-09-08).

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.