OGLESBY WATER UTILITY REPORT

1957-58 FISCAL YEAR WATER DEPARTMENT STATISTICAL REVIEW
By Edward Hand, City Clerk

                                                                                                1957-58 --- 1956-67 --- 1947-48

Total Gallons Pumped, 3 Deep Wells ................................. 112,047,800 --- 107,202,300 --- 90,084,460

Average Daily Pumpage, Gallons ................................................ 306,980 --- 293,704 --- 246,806

Average Daily Per Capita Consumption, Gallons ............................... 76.7 --- 73.4 --- 61.7

Total Power Cost, All Pumps ............................................. $ 3,848.72 --- $ 3,281.03 --- $ 2,898.16

Total Revenue, Metered Sales ........................................... $40,596.93 --- $30,211.17 --- $19,320.75

Total Gallons Accounted For, Metered Only .......................... 99,805,603 --- 99,680,632 --- 76,117,353

................................................................................................or 89.08% --- or 92.98% --- or 84.5%

Total Gallons Unaccounted For, Includes Slow and Detective Meters,

Underground Leaks, Fire Hydrants ................................ 12,242,197 --- 7,621,668 --- 13,967,107

...............................................................................................or 10.92% --- or 7.02% --- or 15.5%

Total KWHS Used in Pumping .............................................. 268,715 --- 249,890 --- 232,804

There is only one yardstick for measuring the operating efficiency of any water distribution system and that is how much water is not accounted for by metering. This year, due to an unusual number of main line breaks, the Oglesby record does not match that of the previous year when a 42-year low record of 7.02% was achieved.

In the 1948-58 period, water pumped has increased 24%, revenue 106%, and the number of water meters in service has grown from 1008 to 1340, or 32%. Distribution losses in the past 10 years were 1957, 7.02%; 1956, 7.20%; 1955, 12.64%; 1954, 10.91%; 1953, 8.06%; 1952, 12.61%; 1951, 13.70%; 1950, 13.44%; 1949, 18.81% and 1948, 15.5%.

Only metered usage is employed in arriving at these totals and no estimates are made of water used in fire fighting and sewer flushing. Usage in all city buildings, garages and pump houses has always been metered. Average losses in this decade were 11.53% of water pumped.

Page 63 / Illinois Municipal Review / March 1958