Water Rights Engineering

Water supply and water rights investigations within the context of the Colorado Water Court system require expertise in hydrology and water rights administration. Water rights filings and developing augmentation plans requires technical analyses, communication of results, negotiations with other water right owners and close working relationships with water attorneys, development of expert witness reports and presentation of expert testimony in court.

These efforts include:

  • Various levels of hydrologic and water rights analyses, historical use studies and water rights evaluations
  • Conducting site visits, interviewing landowners, irrigators, water commissioners and division engineers to analyze water use practices
  • Identifying appropriate analysis method and software or program to use for specific site, available information and associated data records, etc.

Representative Projects:

  • 7W Guest Ranch water demand / supply analyses, augmentation plan, and ditch conveyance and easement analysis in Stillwater Creek basin
  • American Soda water demand / supply analyses, change of use and augmentation plan in Piceance Creek and Parachute Creek basins
  • Brighton Ditch Company shares change of use in South Platte River basin
  • Eldora Mountain Resort water rights filings, augmentation plan, and accounting in Boulder Creek basin
  • Farmers Independent Ditch Company shares change case in South Platte River basin
  • JBS Five Rivers Cattle Feeding, LLC well augmentation plan, change of use and augmentation plan for multiple feedlots in South Platte River basin
  • Palmerosa Ranch water demand / supply analyses, change of use and augmentation plan in Eagle River basin
  • South Adams County Water and Sanitation District Well Augmentation Plan and Fulton Ditch, Brighton Ditch, Lupton Meadows Ditch / Meadow Island No. 1 Ditch, and Burlington-Wellington shares changes of use in South Platte River basin
  • L.G. Everist gravel pit operations, water rights filings, and accounting on Boulder Creek, St. Vrain Creek, and South Platte River main stem
  • Union Reservoir Company shares change of use in St. Vrain Creek basin
  • Upper Colorado River basin water demand / supply analyses, changes of ditch company shares, surface water rights and ground water rights filings, and augmentation plans (various entities and locations in Grand, Summit, Eagle, Garfield, and Mesa Counties)