The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Independent water system means water supplies developed for use within city limits other than water supplies owned, leased, operated, controlled or otherwise utilized by the city water delivery system. Such water supplies shall include but not be limited to the following: nontributary groundwater supplies drawn from the Arapahoe, Laramie-Fox Hills, Denver, or Dawson aquifers subject to the provisions of C.R.S. § 37-90-137(4).

Irrigation shall mean the artificial watering of land to supply moisture for plant growth.

Landscaped common area shall mean the landscaped tract or area immediately adjacent to the facilities within a single-family detached or a commercial development, owned or maintained, or both, by the property owner or the responsible caretaker association, that is irrigated from a common irrigation system that is owned or maintained, or both, by the property owner or responsible caretaker association.

Main means any pipe, cast iron, steel or other approved material used as a conduit for water in the city water system.

Nonwater conserving landscaped common area means that area in which any type of grass and an irrigation system are incorporated in accordance with landscape plans approved by Aurora Water and the planning department of the city.

Service line means the pipe, line or conduit from the main to an individual house or other structure.

Standards and Specifications Regarding Water, Sanitary Sewer and Storm Drainage Infrastructure means the most recent version of the rules and regulations adopted by the general manager pursuant to authority granted in section 138-68 and promulgated pursuant to section 2-3.

Water conserving landscaped common area means that area in which nongrass vegetation and an irrigation system are incorporated in accordance with landscape plans approved by the water and planning departments of the city.

Water delivery system means all those systems of water delivery owned and operated and maintained by the city and all other delivery systems which are supplied water by the city. (Code 1979, § 39-68; Ord. No. 2023-44, § 4, 9-11-2023; Ord. No. 2015-25, § 7, 6-29-2015; Ord. No. 96-66, § 1, 12-16-1996)