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Austin Water reports year-over-year rise in real water loss; outlines technical fixes and financing to accelerate service-line replacements
Summary
Staff reported a roughly 30% increase in measured real losses from 2023 to 2024 driven partly by corrected production flow measurement and municipal‑use reporting and partly by service-line failures; Austin Water described 32 Black & Veatch recommendations (11 complete, 17 in progress), AMI and data‑management upgrades, and a $45 million TWDB low-interest loan to accelerate service-line replacements.
Matt Cullen, pipeline engineering and operations support division manager for Austin Water, briefed the commission on efforts to control water loss and explained a roughly 30% increase in measured real losses from 2023 to 2024.
Cullen said two measurement corrections contributed materially to the apparent increase: improved production-flow measurement after a Black & Veatch review and corrections to municipal‑use reporting. He described the industry-standard ILI ratio (real losses divided by…
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