Martin and Wood Water Consultants, Inc.

The first approved Rotational Fallowing Leasing Pilot Project under HB 13-1248 in Colorado, involving the rotational fallowing of approximately 1,200 acres irrigated under the Catlin Canal in the Arkansas River Basin to generate up to 500 acre-feet of water available for lease to three municipal participants. The project increases water available to municipal suppliers without permanently drying up agricultural land. Martin and Wood provided the water resources and water rights technical expertise, including historical consumptive use calculations, water rights accounting, projection of water supplies, and return flow obligations maintenance.

Assisted applicants Donald E. Dill, Cathie G. Dill, Jerry R. Pierce, and Frances M. Pearce by conducting site visits, performing engineering analyses, and preparing disclosures to support an application for absolute surface water rights for springs tributary to Stout Creek. Provided expert testimony at trial and at a costs hearing, resulting in a favorable ruling on all claims that was subsequently upheld by the Colorado Supreme Court.

Designed, observed construction, development, and testing, and performed pumping test interpretations for an 8-well wellfield supporting oil and gas operations. Assessed well-to-well interference and used pumping data to help design an additional 8-well wellfield in a deeper part of the basin to increase well yields.

Developed multiple one-year Substitute Water Supply Plans (SWSPs) for four Coalbed Methane (CBM) producers to replace stream depletions to the Purgatoire and Apishapa Rivers caused by tributary groundwater pumping. Calculations utilized the Central Raton Basin Groundwater Flow Model, considering historical and projected pumping for over 2,000 wells.