Water Blog

The City of Greeley’s Water Conservation program provides indoor water audits to residences and business in the community. Indoor water audits are free to all Greeley water customers.

The city of Greeley has programs to help you achieve your goal of getting more efficient.  If you take advantages of the resources available to you, you water be scared to open your water bills. 

Buddleia davidii (also written as Buddleja or Butterfly Bush) is available in over 100 species. 

Since August of 2016, rain barrels have been legal in Colorado. Greeley Water Conservation is offering a free class to give customers the knowledge and the skills to design and install a rain barrel system.

This year with the Water Budget in place for single-family residential house, we are allowing the homeowners to choose which days to water rather than following the days of the week watering schedule. 

During the summer about 75 percent of your water goes to watering lawns with July being the peak water use month in the west. 

Your sprinkler system needs regular maintenance to keep working efficiently year after year. Here are 10 tips to make sure it is working properly.

Here are four ways that you can protect local water quality. 

It is essential that you apply for a variance whenever you plant sod or seed in a new or existing lawn that needs revived. For those single-family-residential customers on the water budget, this will set you on a uniform water rate for the establishment of the new grass.

Nobody likes to drip. No one likes to leak. But we still keep doing it. More than 1 trillion gallons of water are wasted in U.S. homes each year from easy-to-fix leaks.

Residents in Greeley may have recently received information about water and sewer line insurance. It is common for residents to be alarmed with the official looking notice that the City is “no longer covering their water and sewer pipes.” Although official looking, this is not a notice from the City of Greeley.

Many customers don’t understand all that goes into bringing Greeley’s clean, high-quality, award-winning water to your homes and businesses, 24/7. Greeley customers only pay around a half of a penny per gallon for clean water delivered to their tap.  Learn more on how Greeley's water department uses your rates to bring you water and improve our water system.

When Greeley’s new water rates take effect in February 2017, more than 80 percent of the city’s single-family residential accounts will likely see a drop in their monthly bills.

You may be working on a few final outdoor projects this fall. Building a deck? Planting a tree? Installing a mailbox?  811 is the number you should call before you begin any digging project.

In 2013, we began putting an informational water budget on all single-family residential customers’ bills, showing them how much water they actually need. The next step? A rate structure based on that water budget, set to go into effect in early 2017.

Know the rules on Xeriscape, rain barrels, and high-efficiency plumbing fixtures in Greeley and Colorado. 

The water budget is a guide to help you gauge how efficiently you are using water. Watch the brand new video and learn more about the program and changes coming in 2017. 

A sprinkler audit is a free service to Greeley water customers to determine how uniformly the system applies water to your lawn. The auditor will come out and run a series of test on the system.

Available on your smartphone or other mobile device, the Colorado Outdoor Water Regulation Guide, also known as H2ORegsCO, is an interactive application that connects users with current, accurate information at the tap of a finger. In addition to the H2ORegsCO application, Greeley’s Water Conservation Program has adopted a specialized web portal called WaterInsight. 

The City of Greeley’s Water Pollution Control Facility received an award from the State of Colorado for their outstanding achievements in energy efficiency.