Around town: what changes from one part of Aurora to the next
Aurora stretches across three counties and several generations of building. These Around town pages look at what genuinely differs 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.
- Original Aurora: water removal in the city's oldest neighborhoods
The northwest corner of the city, around Colfax Avenue and Del Mar Parkway, holds Aurora's oldest housing. Aging plumbing, small basements, rentals and older wall materials shape how a water loss goes here.
- Hoffman Heights and mid-century Aurora ranches
Mid-century ranch neighborhoods in central Aurora share a pattern: brick homes, basements finished over the decades, older mechanicals and mature trees. Each affects how a water loss is handled.
- Southeast Aurora: large finished basements and sump pits
Subdivisions built from the 1990s onward in southeast Aurora often have big finished basements, perimeter drains and sump pumps, and HOA rules. A water loss here tends to involve more square footage and more finishes.
- Heather Ridge and Aurora's golf-course condo communities
Condo and townhome communities from the 1970s and 1980s, around Heather Ridge and similar golf-course developments in south-central Aurora, bring shared walls, aging plumbing and HOA paperwork to every leak.
- Fitzsimons and the Anschutz Medical Campus area
The former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center grounds became a major medical and research campus, ringed by new apartments and older Colfax-corridor buildings. Water losses here often involve sensitive spaces and dense housing.
- North Aurora's I-70 corridor: warehouses and flex space
North of Colfax and along I-70 toward the airport, Aurora is home to warehouses, flex buildings and distribution centers. Flat roofs, sprinklers, big slabs and racked inventory define water losses here.
- East Aurora's newer homes near E-470
Communities east of E-470 and north toward the airport, including Murphy Creek and newer master-planned areas, are among the fastest-growing in the metro. New homes have their own water issues in the first few years.