| Description | The Aurora Water system serves the population and water needs within the municipal boundaries of Aurora spanning Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties. As of 2007, Aurora Water serves approximately 306,908 people with 73,000 connections. Aurora is 144 square miles in area. Aurora Water serves primarily single-family residential accounts with the remainder being single-family attached, apartments, commercial, City of Aurora, and irrigation only accounts.
Aurora Water has entered into an agreement to borrow funds from the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) in 2007 for both the Prairie Waters Project and for the Fen Project in Lake County. As a requirement of the funding, Aurora Water must create a water conservation plan to be filed with the CWCB.Aurora Water has completed a draft Water Conservation Plan for submittal to the CWCB. As part of the submittal process, the draft plan is available for public comment for a period of 60 days. The following elements are required to be incorporated into the plan for it to be approved:Water-efficient fixtures and appliances, including toilets, urinals, showerheads, and faucets; Low water use landscapes, drought resistant vegetation, removal of phreatophytes, and efficient irrigation; Water-efficient industrial and commercial water-using processes; Water reuse systems; Distribution system leak identification and repair; Dissemination of information regarding water use efficiency measures, including by public education, customer water use audits, and water-saving demonstrations; Water rate structures and billing systems designed to encourage water use efficiency in a fiscally responsible manner; Regulatory measures designed to encourage water conservation; Incentives to implement water conservation techniques, including rebates to customers to encourage the installation of water conservation measures; Statement of the covered entity’s best judgment of the role of water conservation plans in the covered entity’s water supply planning; Steps to the covered entity used to develop, and will use to implement, monitor, review, and revise, its water conservation plan; Time period, not to exceed seven years, after which the covered entity will review update its adopted plan; Either as a percentage or in acre-foot increments, an estimate of the amount of water that has been saved through a previously implemented conservation plan and an estimate of the amount of water that will be saved through conservation when the plan is implemented; The plan is intended to provide guidance for future water conservation programs so that, as water supply planning progresses, the Director of Aurora Water along with the Aurora City Council can determine the best programs for the community they serve. |
