Front Range
Aurora's Know Your Flow program turns watering into address-level advice
A Porch Note from Colorado Porch — plain-English local details for all 64 Colorado counties.
Most sprinkler controllers run on a schedule someone set once and forgot. The weather moves on; the timer doesn’t.
Aurora Water’s Know Your Flow closes that gap. Sign up, and through the outdoor watering season you get a weekly email with recommended sprinkler watering times for the days ahead, plus tips for using water more efficiently in your landscape. Instead of the same minutes every week all summer, the advice tracks the actual stretch of hot or cool weather you are in.
A schedule that drifts costs more than money. Yards here sit on different soils, sun exposure, slopes, and sprinkler layouts, so running every zone the same length can soak one bed, starve another, and send the difference down the gutter as runoff. A weekly nudge keeps the dial honest.
Pair the email with a walk-through. Watch each zone run and the problems show themselves — broken heads, overspray onto the sidewalk, low spots that puddle, runoff that never reaches the roots. The controller screen can’t tell you any of that.
For the rest of the toolkit, Aurora’s water conservation page collects water-wise landscaping guidance, landscape assessments, lawn and irrigation permits, and other conservation resources in one spot.
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