Tim York sees Aurora residents watering their lawns on those extra days when they aren’t supposed to, even when their illegal watering happens at 4 a.m.
York doesn’t actually see the violations with his own eyes. But the leader of Aurora’s water conservation program knows they’re doing it with the help of a new computer program.
“We look at about 2.2 million data points for each individual day, so we’re looking at hourly water use data, and we built some scripts that run against that data on a weekly basis to say ‘was somebody irrigating when they’re not supposed to be?,’” York said earlier this month at his desk at Aurora’s water operations facility…