Where We Work

Maintaining the Front Range.

Denver metro, the foothills, and south along the corridor. The soil is broadly the same across all of it — heavy, alkaline, expansive clay. The water rules are not. Ten cities, at least a dozen water providers, and commercial watering schedules that contradict each other from one side of a road to the other.

A vendor running one irrigation program across a metro route is going to be wrong somewhere. Here's what actually changes, city by city.

Denver

City and County of Denver · ~5,280 ft

Denver Water's Stage 1 drought put commercial accounts on a two-day watering week. That changes how a property has to be irrigated — and it makes every inefficiency on your system expensive.

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Lakewood

Jefferson County · ~5,500 ft

Lakewood has no city water utility. Roughly twenty different providers serve the city, they publish different rules, and the one that matters is whichever one bills your meter.

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Arvada

Jefferson County · ~5,340 ft

Arvada's Stage 1 drought is mandatory, commercial accounts water Tuesday and Friday, and the fines escalate to $500. The margin for a sloppy irrigation program just went away.

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Wheat Ridge

Jefferson County · ~5,450 ft

Wheat Ridge's drought rules go further than most: no water features, and power washing restricted to your assigned watering days. That last one catches property managers off guard.

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Golden

Jefferson County · ~5,675 ft

Golden's drought rule has a detail almost nobody has caught: the two-irrigation-events-per-week limit applies to the entire property, not to each zone. On a big commercial site, that is a hard constraint.

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Littleton

Arapahoe County · ~5,350 ft

Littleton is a Denver Water city, which means Tuesday/Friday commercial watering — and access to the best commercial turf-replacement rebate on the Front Range.

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Centennial

Arapahoe County · ~5,800 ft

Centennial has no single water provider, and the districts serving it assign different commercial watering days. Get this wrong and you're either non-compliant or losing plant material.

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Parker

Douglas County · ~5,900 ft

Parker Water runs its own supply and its own rules. Commercial accounts get three watering days, not two — but install a new lawn without a permit and you'll find that out the hard way.

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Castle Rock

Douglas County · ~6,200 ft

Castle Rock gives commercial properties a midnight-to-8-a.m. watering window — the tightest on the Front Range. It also pays $3.25 a square foot to convert turf, which is more than six times Denver Water's rate.

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Boulder

Boulder County · ~5,400 ft

Boulder has no mandatory drought restrictions right now. What it has is Ordinance 8721 — which bans nonfunctional turf and cool-season grass on commercial property outright. That's a bigger deal.

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Statewide

The nonfunctional turf law applies everywhere on this list.

Colorado Senate Bill 24-005 prohibits the installation of nonfunctional turf, nonfunctional artificial turf, and invasive plant species on commercial, institutional, and industrial property, on common-interest-community property, and in street rights-of-way, parking lots, medians, and transportation corridors. Local governments had until January 1, 2026 to come into compliance. HB25-1113 (effective August 6, 2025) extended the same idea to new multifamily residential development over twelve units, with local compliance due by January 1, 2028.

Read the important part carefully: the law applies to new installation and redevelopment. It does not require you to rip out turf you already have. But the moment your property does a redevelopment, a site modification, or a landscape project that triggers your municipality's code, that median full of bluegrass is no longer a maintenance decision — it's a compliance one.

Separately, SB23-178 bars homeowners associations from banning xeriscape, drought-tolerant plants, or non-vegetative turf on single-family detached homes, and requires HOAs to offer at least three pre-approved water-wise front-yard designs.

A note on accuracy.Every water rule, rebate, and ordinance on these pages was verified against the provider's or municipality's own published source as of July 2026. Drought stages get declared and lifted, and rebate programs change year to year — always confirm current rules with the utility that actually bills your meter before you program a controller or budget around an incentive. Where we could not verify something, we left it out rather than guess.

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