A lease agreement that would see Aurora lease up to 200 acre-feet of water in the Arkansas Basin to Nestle Waters North America Inc. for $800 per-acre foot passed by a vote of 7 to 4, with Councilmembers Renie Peterson, Bob FitzGerald, Larry Beer and Ryan Frazier voting no.
The agreement would be renewed annually for a period of 10 years, and would be contingent on available supply. The water leased from Aurora would go to replace water taken from the Arkansas Valley to bottle and sell.
In other action, the council passed a water management plan that would see Aurora citizens setting their own three-day-a-week watering schedules, as opposed to having their timetables set by the city.
The final vote on resolution 10b, which would implement the 2009 Water Management Plan, came after Councilman Brad Pierce added an amendment that would allow citizens to set their own three days for watering, providing the city's reservoirs were at 80 percent or more. After the amendment passed by a vote of 7-3, the final resolution was carried by a vote of 8-2, which Councilmembers Steve Hogan and Bob Broom voting no.
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