The University of Colorado at Boulder Law School

Session One: Groundwater Science Basics

Moderator: Kathryn Mutz, Natural Resources Law Center

• Survey of Groundwater Supplies and their Depletion, Alan Burns, U.S. Geological Survey
• Overview of Groundwater Quality and Related Management Issues, Mike Wireman, Regional Groundwater Expert, EPA Region 8
• Groundwater—Surface Water Interactions, Thomas Maddock III, Department of Hydrology, University of Arizona

Session Two: Groundwater Law Basics

Moderator: Justice Gregory Hobbs, Jr., Colorado Supreme Court

• Overview of Groundwater Management Laws in the Western U.S., Gary Bryner, Natural Resources Law Center and Brigham Young University (see also Groundwater Law Sourcebook of the Western United States)
• Federal Groundwater Rights and the Federal Role in Groundwater Policy, John Leshy, Hastings College of the Law, University of California (no presentation provided)
• Survey of Indian Groundwater Issues, Rodney Lewis, General Counsel, Gila River Tribe
• Modeling and Expert Witnesses in Adversarial Settings, Arthur Littleworth, Best, Best & Krieger LLP (no presentation provided)

Keynote Address

Robert Glennon, University of Arizona, author of Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Water (no presentation provided)

Thursday, June 17, 2004: Regional Groundwater Issues (Past, Present, Future)

Session Three: Groundwater for the Industrial West

Moderator: Doug Kenney, Natural Resources Law Center

• Black Mesa, Harris Sherman, Arnold and Porter and Counsel to the Hopi Tribe
• Coalbed Methane: Overview of Ownership and Water Quality Issues, Tom Darin, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance

Session Four: Transboundary Groundwater Issues

Moderator: Doug Kenney, Natural Resources Law Center

• Western States' Compacts: Should Groundwater Be on the Table?, Rachael Paschal Osborn, Private Practice and Gonzaga Law School, and Tom Ring, Yakama Nation Water Resources Program
• U.S.–Mexico Groundwater: A Shared Resource?, Steve Mumme, Colorado State University

Session Five: Regional Panels

Moderator: Kathryn Mutz, Natural Resources Law Center

• Groundwater Resources of the Plains: From the Edwards to the Ogallala, Ron Kaiser, Texas A&M University (Kaiser presentation); Raymond Supalla, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska (Supalla presentation)
• Groundwater Resources of the Lower Colorado Region, Michael Fife, Hatch and Parent (Fife presentation); John Entsminger, Deputy Counsel, Southern Nevada Water Authority (Entsminger presentation); Timothy Henley, Manager, Arizona Water Banking Authority (Henley paper)

Friday, June 18, 2004: A Primer on Western Groundwater

Session Six: A Colorado Groundwater Primer

Moderator: James Corbridge, University of Colorado Law School

• Groundwater Resources in Colorado: The Groundwater Atlas, Matthew Sares, Chief, Environmental Geology Section, Colorado Geological Survey
• Intro to Ground Water Law in Colorado, David Harrison, Veronica Sperling, and Steven Sims (see also Harrison and Sims paper)
• Surface-Groundwater Conflicts on the South Platte: Effect of Drought on Laws, Regulations and Water Use, Steve Sims, Colorado Office of the Attorney General (see also Harrison and Sims paper)
• Groundwater Management: Lessons from Colorado v. Kansas, David Robbins, Hill & Robbins PC
• Conjunctive Use in the South Denver Metro Region: Opportunities and Challenges, Patricia Wells, General Counsel, Denver Water

Session Seven: The Future of Groundwater in the West

Moderator: Jim Martin, Natural Resources Law Center

• Presentation Outline (pdf), James Lochhead, Brownstein, Hyatt, & Farber PC
• Don Ament, Colorado Department of Agriculture; Tom Cech, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District; Russell George, Colorado Department of Natural Resources (no presentations provided)