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Meghan Winokur

Of Counsel

600 East Main Street, Suite 104, Aspen, CO 81611
P 970.429.6883
OVERVIEW

Meghan's clients benefit from her experience in negotiating the complex issues associated with evaluation, assessment, and conveyance of water rights and water compliance.

Meghan advises municipal water providers, real estate developers, homeowners’ association, industrial water users, ranchers, farmers, individual landowners, and special districts in water court litigation and related administrative proceedings. Additionally, she advises her clients in matters concerning real estate and land use planning.

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EXPERIENCE

Experience

  • Represent clients in water court litigation, including adjudication of water rights, changes of water rights and plans for augmentation
  • Negotiate issues associated with the evaluation, assessment, and conveyance of water rights
  • Advise clients in real estate matters, including land titles, water rights titles and rights-of-way
  • Assist municipal and private clients with long-term water supply planning and development
CLIENT RESULTS

Client Results

Municipal Water Supplies

  • Representing numerous municipalities and water service providers in developing and protecting water supplies.

  • Helped a client with the transfer of shares in the Bessemer Irrigating Ditch Company to municipal uses.

  • Successfully defended the water rights of a water service provider in the Arkansas River Basin.

  • Prevailed in protecting the water rights of a municipality in the Colorado River Basin in two appeals to the Colorado Supreme Court.

Water Rights Due Diligence

  • Assisted clients to investigate water rights associated with significant land purchases in the Colorado and Yampa River Basins.

Published Cases

  • Anderson v. Pursell, 244. P.3d 1188 (Colo. 2010)

  • Town of Minturn V. Tucker, 293 p. 3d 581 (Colo. 2013)

  • Tucker v. Town of Minturn, 359 P.3d 29 (Colo. 2015)

Recreational In-Channel Diversion

  • Assisted a municipality to obtain a conditional recreational in-channel diversion water right on the Arkansas River, coordinated documentation of the use of the associated whitewater park, and obtained a water court decree making a portion of the water right absolute.  

PRACTICES

Practices

Water Law
Environmental and Natural Resources
EDUCATION AND ADMISSIONS

Education

University of Colorado School of Law
J.D., 2004
  • University of Colorado Law Review
Fort Lewis College
B.S., 1999
  • Environmental Biology
  • summa cum laude

Bar Admissions

Colorado

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC AFFILIATIONS

Professional and Civic Affiliations

  • Colorado Bar Association, Water Law Section, Member
  • American Bar Association, Member
  • Pitkin County Bar Association, Member
  • Children’s Rocky Mountain School, Board of Directors, President
DISCLAIMER

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