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<br />various modules during the time leading up to the festival and are then involved in activities <br />related to the curriculum at the water festival. <br /> <br />Classroom presentations - The Conservation Youth Program has greatly increased the <br />number of school presentations and interest from Aurora Public Schools teachers. The <br />conservation youth program carries out approximately 50 classroom presentations per year. <br /> <br />Forests to Faucets Teacher Training- Aurora Water's Conservation and Clean Water <br />Program staff teamed-up to create the Forests to Faucets teacher training. This is a Project <br />WET based teacher training <br /> <br />A wards- Aurora Water's Youth education program has won the Silver Award in the 2007 <br />Local Government Awards Program category of Community Outreach/Public Education, <br />specifically for the Forests to Faucets teacher training, classroom lessons and field trip <br />opportunities, service learning projects, the Youth Water Festival and the A WQUA Lounge <br />watershed education center. Also in 2006, the Colorado Alliance for Environmental <br />Education (CAEE) awarded Aurora Water's Youth Water Festival the CAEE Award in <br />Excellence in the Pre K-12 Education category. <br /> <br />ENFORCEMENT <br /> <br />Water Management Plan- Since 2002, Aurora Water has created an annual Water <br />Management Plan (WMP) to address drought conditions and demand response. The WMP is <br />a menu of options or water availability conditions that are laid out in late winter and then are <br />brought forward to the Aurora City Council for consideration. Through this document, <br />seasonal water monitors are given the authority to enforce the adopted drought stage and all <br />management programs that are associated with a given drought stage. This includes <br />prescribed day of the weel< watering, hours of allowed irrigation, and waste of water. <br /> <br />Irrigation plans review and inspections-In order to support and enforce the irrigation <br />standards ordinance, Aurora Water employs an irrigation plans examiner and an irrigation <br />system inspector. The plans examiner reviews all irrigation plans that are required by the <br />ordinance which are usually larger properties such as commercial and large properties. The <br />inspector checl<s all new irrigation systems being installed to verify that they adhere to the <br />City of Aurora standards. In 2006, 60 commercial, large HOA, and multi-family irrigation <br />system plans were reviewed for water-efficient design and 270 residential and commercial <br />systems were inspected. <br /> <br />Lawn permit inspections- Aurora Water has dedicated staff, in addition to seasonal water <br />monitors, who inspect all new lawn installations. The main objective of such inspections is to <br />ensure that the proper amount of soil amendment has been incorporated to the proper depth. <br />This ensures water savings as well as a better product for the customer. In 2006, staff <br />conducted 3,325 new lawn inspections to ensure proper soil amendment was added and <br />tilled. <br /> <br />16 <br />