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Santa Rosa reports water loss below state standard; city credits active leak detection
Summary
Teresa Godinho, sustainability representative for the City of Santa Rosa water department, told the Board of Public Utilities on Oct. 14 that Santa Rosa’s annual water-loss audit shows the city is meeting and is below its assigned state performance standard.
Teresa Godinho, sustainability representative for the City of Santa Rosa water department, told the Board of Public Utilities on Oct. 14 that Santa Rosa’s annual water-loss audit shows the city is meeting and is below its assigned state performance standard.
"Currently, we're about 14 gallons per service connection per day," Godinho said, describing the city’s actual gallons-per-connection-per-day figure and noting the state had assigned Santa Rosa a performance standard of 17.1 gallons per service connection per day. "We know that our leak detection program is working."
Godinho said the water-loss audit separates "apparent losses," such as metering or billing errors, from "real losses," which are…
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