Wisconsin · PWS 5730

Stone Lake Sanitary District

What Stone Lake Sanitary District 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
63.2%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csvSheet1 H486agency source

Where this figure comes from

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

  • system input volume 9.15 sheet Sheet1, cell H486 · 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 3.37 sheet Sheet1, cell I486 · 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

63.2% non-revenue water in FY2025, higher than 99% of the 562 Wisconsin systems that filed that year.

63.2% 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 63.2%. 4 filings above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 63.2%Wisconsin median 16.6%
This series is flagged for review. The filed loss percentage has moved an average of 8.9 points a year, against a Wisconsin median of 5.1, including 37% to 63% 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.

Debt outstanding, and what covers the interest

$602,341 of long-term debt outstanding at the end of 2025, across 3 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$602,3413
2024$620,6803
2023$638,5263
2022$655,8903
2021$672,7863
2020$689,2263
2019$705,2253
2018$720,8443
2017$735,9903
2016$755,1693

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 · 9.15 MG system input
Billed 3.37 MG Unbilled authorized 0.13 MG Apparent loss 0 MG Real loss 5.65 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 9.15 MG sheet Sheet1, cell H486 · 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 3.37 MG sheet Sheet1, cell I486 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Unbilled authorized 0.13 MG sheet Sheet1, cell O486 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Apparent loss 0 MG sheet Sheet1, cell R486 · thousands of gallons, declared in the column header, divided by 1,000
  • Real loss 5.65 MG sheet Sheet1, cell U486 · 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 63.2% 9.15
2024 37.3% 4.85
2023 37.0% 7.25
2022 30.6% 6.57
2021 49.7% 9.37
2020 55.5% 8.4
2019 49.9% 7.57
2018 38.4% 6.8
2017 38.7% 6.39
2016 44.2% 6.39

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.

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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, “Stone Lake Sanitary District — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/wi/stone-lake-sanitary-district/ (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.