With outdoor watering restrictions and drought pricing, many customers are wondering how they can effectively manage both their landscapes and their pocketbooks. Perhaps an outside, objective perspective could help?

Colorado Springs Utilities is offering free water audits to current water customers. The audits, performed by professional contractors, give customers specific, tangible steps to to save water and keep landscapes healthy. Two audit services are offered: a complete outdoor irrigation inspection, or an indoor/outdoor service that includes leak checks. To qualify for an outdoor water use audit, customers must have an in-ground irrigation system.

The established audit program has a track record of success around the state. Several hundred audits have already been conducted in Colorado Springs with great success.

Customers can schedule a 2-hour appointment by calling 1-303-999-3820 ext. 217, or visit ConservationCenter.org. A homeowner must be present at the time of the audit.

A portrait of Steve Maegdlin, CEO of the CSK Group at the CSK Group office in downtown Colorado Springs, Monday, July 29, 2013. Photo by Junfu Han. The Gazette.