Water Right, Adjudications, and Expert Testimony

JCHA has extensive experience with water rights, including the adjudication of Denver Basin aquifer rights, tributary surface water and storage rights, water exchanges, and augmentation plans. JCHA personnel have also provided expert testimony in water rights cases, environmental cases, and assisting with permitting through the appropriate regulatory agency.

Development of surface water and ground water rights in the Western United States typically requires an extensive administrative and legal process. This process usually has to precede the development of either surface or ground water for beneficial use. Therefore, this is a vital link in the development of water resources.

JCHA personnel have over two decades of experience providing technical assistance and expert testimony in the following areas:

• Prepare water supply availability studies
• Evaluate crop consumptive use
• Prepare augmentation plans
• Provide and prepare expert testimony in Water Courts and District Courts
• Develop strategic courses of action for defense
• Collect data, design, and implement plan to provide relative support for your case
• Conduct parametric studies to assess your options and associated liabilities