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Altoona Municipal Water And Sewer

What Altoona Municipal Water And Sewer 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
15.2%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csvSheet1 H13agency source

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 309.3 sheet Sheet1, cell H13 · 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 262.3 sheet Sheet1, cell I13 · 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

15.2% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 45% of the 562 Wisconsin systems that filed that year.

15.2% 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 15.2%. 4 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 15.2%Wisconsin median 16.6%

Debt outstanding, and what covers the interest

$2.7M of long-term debt outstanding at the end of 2025, across 2 bond issues. 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$2.7M2
2024$2.7M2
2023$2.3M2
2022$218,3011
2021$243,0121
2020$267,1921
2019$290,8511
2018$314,0011
2017$336,6521
2016$358,8161

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 · 309.3 MG system input
Billed 262.3 MG Unbilled authorized 29.5 MG Apparent loss 0 MG Real loss 17.5 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 309.3 MG sheet Sheet1, cell H13 · 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 262.3 MG sheet Sheet1, cell I13 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Unbilled authorized 29.5 MG sheet Sheet1, cell O13 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Apparent loss 0 MG sheet Sheet1, cell R13 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Real loss 17.5 MG sheet Sheet1, cell U13 · 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)
2025 15.2% 309.3
2024 23.2% 331
2023 24.8% 364.3
2022 27.5% 354.2
2021 25.7% 343.3
2020 19.1% 352.8
2019 27.9% 300.3
2018 16.8% 278.2
2017 24.6% 287
2016 28.5% 273.3

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

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.

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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, “Altoona Municipal Water And Sewer — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/wi/altoona-municipal-water-and-sewer/ (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.