Aurora Water
Aurora replacing Great Lawn at Aurora city hall with drought-tolerant ‘Bermudagrass’
AURORA | Aurora is replacing the Great Lawn at the Aurora Municipal Center with drought-tolerant Bermudagrass as part of a citywide effort to reduce water use and improve the sustainability of its parks, city officials said Wednesday. The city’s Parks, Recreation and Open Space Department, working with contractor Elite Industries, started the conversion this week […]
No movement on Aurora’s Eagle County Whitney Reservoir proposal after six years
This story was first published at the Vail Daily. VAIL | It’s been more than six years since Aurora and Colorado Springs’ proposed Whitney Reservoir concept first surfaced with a raging controversy over test drilling for a dam on U.S. Forest Service land in the Homestake Creek Valley near Red Cliff in southeastern Eagle County. […]
Aurora considers penalties for Niagara Bottling over drought water use
AURORA | City officials are contemplating consequences for its largest water consumer, Niagara Bottling, which has not yet reduced its consumption despite drought restrictions imposed citywide requiring a 20% reduction in use. While the bottling plant has not yet violated the drought restrictions, the facility is on track to use more water than its annual […]
Arapahoe County commissioner to hold water supply community forum in Aurora Aug. 1
AURORA | Arapahoe County Commissioner Rhonda Fields will hold a community forum next month focused on water supply for the region and the state, water conservation and long-term planning. “Water Matters: A Community Conversation,” is slated for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 1, at the county’s CentrePoint Plaza’s Littleton Room, 14980 E. Alameda Drive […]
Emergency lane closures in Aurora due to damaged sanitary sewer line
AURORA | Emergency lane closures have been put in place at the intersection of South Chambers Road and East Mississippi Avenue due to a utility crew drilling into the city’s sanitary sewer line. At about 4 p.m. Monday, the city had to implement lane closures to accommodate emergency repairs to the sanitary sewer line. Kirby […]
Mayor Coffman seeing red over green Aurora school district lawns amid sustained drought
AURORA | Green lawns at some Aurora schools have provoked threats of a water shut-off from Mayor Mike Coffman. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Coffman accused Aurora Public Schools of violating drought restrictions to irrigate school properties and having to pay fines for the alleged violations. Coffman said he is considering shutting off water […]
Colorado River’s dire state demands action from urban water users, experts say — few are
DENVER | Dissonance exists between life-close-to-normal policies regarding urban water use and the growing crisis on the river Casually surveying the urban landscapes in much of Colorado’s Front Range, you’d never know that the Colorado River — the source for roughly half the water of the cities — has deteriorated to its most pitiful shape […]
LETTER: Reality reveals that Aurora Water not the bad guy as Rep. Carter insists
Editor: In a May 7 Aurora Sentinel opinion column, Aurora House District 36 Rep. Michael Carter took the City of Aurora to task for buying water rights from farmers. Rep. Carter aptly noted increased labor costs, and that small farmers are “under enormous pressure from historic low commodity prices, rising input cost from tariffs,” but […]