Representative Clients
Business and Commercial
Circle C Ranch*, M&M Grain & Produce, LLC*, Sakata Farms*, Front Range Feedlots*, Blue Wing Farms, LLC*, Wiggins Farms, LLC
Ditch and Reservoir Companies and Water Users
Logan Well Users Inc., Lower Logan Well Users, Inc., Sedgwick County Well Users Inc., Low Line Ditch Company, Farmers Independent Ditch Company, Western Mutual Ditch Company, Larimer and Weld Irrigation Company, Larimer and Weld Reservoir Company, WRCC, Inc., Cache la Poudre Irrigation Company, Sustainable Water Augmentation Group, Inc., Colorado, Colorado Agricultural Preservation Association, Northeast Water Users Association, Boulder and Whiterock Ditch and Reservoir Company, Handy Ditch Company, San Luis Valley irrigation Well Owners, Inc., Red Feather Storage and Irrigation Company, Bravo Ditch Company, Kersey Well Users Association, Sedgwick Well Users, Inc., Sterling Irrigation Company, Deuel and Snyder Ditch Company, Kern Reservoir and Ditch Company, Johnson & Edwards Ditch Company, Springdale Ditch Company, Godfrey Ditch Company, W.R. Jones Ditch Company, Lake Arrowhead Water Association, North Poudre Irrigation Company*, Lakeview Village and Veeman Dairy.
Government and Districts
Central Colorado Water Conservancy District and its Ground Water Management Subdistrict and Well Augmentation Subdistrict, Lower South Platte Water Conservancy District, Town of Firestone, School District 27J*, Morgan School District*, East Larimer County Water District*, Tri-Districts, Town of Pierce*, Town of Julesburg*, Town of Windsor*, Weld County*, Board of County Commissioners of Weld County*
*Water Counsel
Representative Cases:
Colorado Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Cases:
City & Cty of Denver v. Consol. Ditches of Water Dist. No. 2, 444 P.3d 278 (Colo. 2019)
Well Augmentation Subdistrict v. Centennial Water and Sanitation Dist., 435 P.3d 469 (Colo. 2019)
North Sterling Irrigation Dist. v. Simpson, 202 P.3d 1207 (Colo. 2009)
Well Augmentation Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District v. City of Aurora, 2009 WL 4023056 (Colo. 2009).
In re Water Rights of Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, 147 P.3d 9 (Colo. 2006)
Gallegos v. Colorado Ground Water Commission, 147 P.3d 20 (Colo. 2006)
Deutsch v. Kalcevic, 140 P.3d 340 (Colo.App. 2006)
Eagle Peak Farms, Ltd. v. Lost Creek Ground Water Management District, 7 P.3d 1006 (Colo. App. 1999).
Upper Black Squirrel Creek Ground Water Management District v. Goss, 993 P.2d 1177 (Colo. 2000).
In re Water Rights of Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, 147 P.3d 9 (Colo. 2006)
Cherokee Metropolitan District v. Simpson, 148 P.3d 142 (Colo. 2006).
Gallegos v. Colorado Ground Water Commission, 147 P.3d 30 (Colo. 2006).
Water Court, Water Division No. 1:
Applications for Augmentation Plans:
Case No. 16CW3202, Application for Water Rights and Approval of Plan of Augmentation, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, the Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, and the Well Augmentation Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District
Case No. 09CW7, Application for Recharge Water Rights and Plan for Augmentation, Emanuel W. Rothe
Case No. 2008CW71, Application for Water Rights, Change of Water Rights, Approval of Augmentation Plan, and Exchange, PVIC Augmentation Group, LLC (Platte Valley Irrigation Company)
Case No. 06CW114, Application for Approval of Plan for Augmentation, Front Range Feed Lots, LLC
Case No. 05CW331, Application for Underground Storage Water Rights, Surface Water Rights, Underground Water Rights, Change of Water Rights and Exchange, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, the Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, and the Well Augmentation Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (REP)
Case No. 05CW40, Application for Change of Water Rights, Plan for Augmentation and Recharge, A&W Water Service, Inc. (Farmers Independent Ditch Company)
Case No. 04CW285, Application for Conditional Water Right, Change of Water Right, and Approval of Plan for Augmentation, Lorenzini Farms, Inc.
Case No. 04CW90, Application for Change of Water Rights and Plan for Augmentation, Joe Hawkins (Weldon Valley Ditch)
Case No. 02CW339 (Consolidated with Case No. 05CW59), Application for Water Rights, Change of Water Rights, Change of Water Rights and Approval of Plan for Augmentation, Town of Milliken
Case No. 02CW335, Application for Approval of Plan for Augmentation, Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District
Case No. 02CW320, Application for Water Rights and Approval of Plan for Augmentation, The Lower South Platte Water Conservancy District Water Activity Enterprise
Case No. 2002CW301, Application for the Change of Water Rights and Plan for Augmentation of the Kern Reservoir and Ditch Company
Case No. 03CW208, Application for Approval of Plan for Augmentation, Lower Logan Well Users, Inc.
Case No. 03CW195, Application for Approval of Plan for Augmentation, Logan Well Users, Inc.
Case No. 03CW99, Application for Approval of Plan for Augmentation, Well Augmentation Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District
Case No. 01CW61 (Consolidated with Case No. 03CW194),Application for Water Rights and Approval of Plan for Augmentation, Chris Dinsdale
Applications for Change of Water Right:
Case No. 08CW178, Application for Change of Water Rights, Front Range Feed Lots, LLC, (New Cache La Poudre Irrigating Company)
Case No. 07CW6, Application for Change of Water Rights, Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Highland Ditch, aka Plumb Ditch)
Case No. 06CW41, Application for Change of Water Rights, Front Range Feed Lots, LLC
Case No. 2005CW343, Application for Underground Water Rights from Nontributary sources of Wellington Water Works, LLC.
Case No. 05CW79, Application for Change of Water Right, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District and the Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Brighton Ditch Company)
Case No. 05CW69, Application for Change of Water Rights, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Platteville Milling and Irrigating Company)
Case No. 05CW53, Application for Change of Water Rights, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Big Thompson and Platte River Ditch Company and Bee Line Ditch)
Case No. 2004CW276, Application for Change of Water Rights, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Farmers Independent Ditch Company)
Case No. 2004CW224, Application of Bestway Concrete
Case Nos. 03CW348, 05CW54, Application for Change of Water Right, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Greeley Irrigation Company)
Case No. 03CW209, Application for Water Rights and Approval of Plan for Augmentation, Sedgwick County Well Users, Inc.
Case No. 2002CW403, Application for the Change of Water Rights . . . of the Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation Company et.al. (currently on appeal)
Case No. 02CW172, Application for Change of Water Rights, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District and the Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Union Reservoir, aka Calkins Lake)
Case No. 02CW265, Application for Change of Water Rights, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Lupton Meadows Ditch Company)
Case No. 01CW263, Application for Change of Water Right, Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Weldon Valley Ditch Company)
Case No. 01CW255, Application for Change of Water Right and Plan for Augmentation, Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, and the Well Augmentation Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Cole Seepage Ditch, Mayfield Seepage Ditch, McCormick Seepage Ditch, Godding Ditch, Rural Ditch and Panama Reservoir)
Case No. 00CW83, Application for Water Right, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, the Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, and the Well Augmentation Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Shores Lake)
Applications for Water Right:
Case No. 10CW141, Application for Water Right and Water Storage Rights, Western Mutual Ditch Company
Case No. 09CW173 (85CW370, 95CW77 and 02CW146), Application for Recharge Water Right, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District and the Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District
Case No. 01CW48, Application for Recharge Water Right, Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District and Platteville Irrigating and Milling Company