Around town: how water problems change from one part of Aurora to the next
Aurora spans three counties and several generations of building. These pages cover what changes by area for water removal: the age and layout of the housing, basements versus slabs, condo and rental patterns, commercial building types, and which city or county office to check with before repairs.
- Hoffman Heights ranches: when water meets seventy years of basement remodels
Central Aurora's mid-century ranch neighborhoods share a pattern: brick houses, basements finished bit by bit over decades, older mechanicals and big street trees. Each one changes how a water loss gets handled.
- Southeast Aurora: big finished basements, sump pits and clay soil
Subdivisions built from the 1990s on in southeast Aurora often come with large finished basements, perimeter drains, sump pumps and HOA rules. A water loss here usually means more square footage and more finishes.
- Heather Ridge and Aurora's golf-course condos: shared walls, shared leaks
The condo and townhome communities built in the 1970s and 1980s around Heather Ridge and similar golf courses in south-central Aurora bring shared walls, aging plumbing and HOA paperwork to every leak.
- Fitzsimons and the Anschutz Medical Campus: labs, clinics and dense housing
The old Fitzsimons Army Medical Center grounds are now a medical and research campus, ringed by new apartments and older buildings along Colfax. A leak here often reaches sensitive rooms, or several households at once.
- North Aurora's I-70 corridor: water on warehouse floors and flex space
North of Colfax and along I-70 toward the airport, Aurora runs to warehouses, flex buildings and distribution centers. Flat roofs, sprinklers, big slabs and racked inventory shape every water loss here.
- East Aurora's new homes near E-470, and the leaks of their first few years
The communities east of E-470 and north toward the airport, Murphy Creek among them, are some of the fastest-growing in the metro. A new house has its own set of water problems in its first few years.