Meghan Winokur

Client Results

• Diligently guiding a municipal water service provider through complex issues related to improving the reliability and quality of its water supply system, including addressing water treatment plant capacity limitations, physical and legal water supply challenges, water rate increases, and funding for infrastructure improvements.
• Protecting and enhancing future water supplies for ski areas in the Roaring Fork Valley by protecting water rights through court action, successfully securing a long-term agreement with a municipality for the delivery of snowmaking water and assisting with federal permitting matters.
• Working to improve a water supply to support an art-based glamping community in San Miguel County.
• Coordinating the implementation of a collaborative plan to monitor stream conditions in Castle Creek and Maroon Creek through a negotiated agreement with Pitkin County.
• Helped a client with the transfer of shares in the Bessemer Irrigating Ditch Company to municipal uses.

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

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

• Worked with a team of lawyers to obtain county approval of an amended and restated ski area master plan, following a lengthy administrative process and multiple public hearings.
• Assisting with an application to re-zone lands in Pitkin County to support ski area operations.
• Successfully negotiated complex water rights issues on significant transactions involved residential real estate transfers in the Roaring Fork Valley.

• 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)

• 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.