Welcome to Lower Saucon Authority

For the entire year of 2025 we have sold 8.815 million gallons less than we have produced, a loss rate of 7.88%. That translates to a cost of $66,032 dollars in lost, or “non-revenue” water. The national “non-revenue” water average is 24%, which translates to 26.836 million gallons of water. That translates to $201,000 dollars in lost, or “non-revenue” water.

That means that compared to the national average, we saved our customers $134,968 in lost water costs. For the entire year, our water budget was $1,349,900. So that means that our savings vs. the national average represented 9.998% of our annual budget!

If our budget was 10% higher, it would definitely require a significant rate increase.

That is exactly what all of this saved water means!

So let’s get into the nuts and bolts of saving “non-revenue” water.

Many large systems struggle to keep their lost water to 30%, while 20% is considered to be a good result. At the Lower Saucon Authority we target 10% every quarter when we measure our lost water.

For the 4th quarter of 2025, the Lower Saucon Authority kept its system-wide lost water to an incredible 4.27%. We “produced” 27.613 million gallons for the quarter, and sold 26.433 million gallons. This left a total of approximately 1.180 million gallons lost, for a gross total loss of 4.27%. This is an amazing number that we are once again very happy to achieve! This marks the seventh quarter in a row that we were able to keep our “lost” water under 10%. Even more impressive is that 725,000 gallons of that lost water was used to fight a fire at the Moon of Saucon Valley, leaving our net lost water at 454,820 gallons. This represents a net lost water rate of 1.65%.