After weeks of heavy rainfall, the Aurora City Council on Wednesday removed the city’s drought declaration, returning to normal water availability conditions.
— those who watered them more were faced with a surcharge on their bills during the drought declaration. They can now go back to watering three times a week before 10 a.m. and after 6 p.m.
Brown said the city’s lease with Pueblo Water for 9,000 acres of water at a $7.5 million cost also contributed to making up shortfalls. As of Wednesday, the city’s reservoirs were at 85% of capacity. When the City Council approved the drought declaration earlier this year, the reservoirs were at 54% capacity at a time when they would normally be closer to 65% to 70%.
Much of Aurora residents’ confusion about the declaration stemmed from the fact that statewide snowpack averages were up, and that surrounding cities, including Denver, weren’t under drought restrictions. But the watersheds Aurora has rights to had lower levels of snowpack, city staff said. “When this monsoon season started when the flooding started in this city, this governing body at any point up until now could have got together and ended this at any point but we waited this long. … I’m disappointed in us,” she said.
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