Negotiated and completed the sale of water rights and ranch property in Boulder County for $5,250,000.
Represented the Seller of a significant Colorado water rights portfolio. Marketed, found an institutional buyer, and sold to that buyer a strategic portion of the water rights owned by the Seller in a $13,000,000.00 transaction. This complex multi-party transaction involved negotiation of the transaction, preparation of all contract and conveyance documents, obtaining multiple regulatory, third-party and legal consents, and consummating the transaction in less than forty-five days from contract execution to close of escrow.
Over a three-year period, prosecuted the first change of water rights on a historical irrigation ditch in East Boulder County. Successfully negotiated stipulated decree with fifteen opposers, addressing issues including allocation of water rights from commingled water supplies and administration of retained historical irrigation return flows.
Stephen Larson, Partner, was appointed by the City and County of Broomfield as Broomfield's Designated Member on the South Platte Basin Roundtable. Nine basin roundtables were established by the Colorado Water for the 21st Century Act to facilitate conversations among Colorado's major river basins regarding statewide water issues. Each basin roundtable facilitates discussions among water leaders in the basin and encourages locally driven collaborative solutions to Colorado's water challenges.
Michael Repucci, a Founding Partner of Johnson & Repucci LLP of Boulder, was recently awarded the 2012 River Conservationist Award by Trout Unlimited’s Colorado Headwaters Chapter as a result of his longstanding efforts to preserve and protect Grand County’s cold water fisheries, especially the Fraser River and Ranch Creek near Winter Park. Repucci is part of a group of concerned land and business owners in the Fraser River basin attempting to negotiate appropriate mitigation requirements with Denver Water to offset expected impacts to stream biology and morphology due to Denver Water’s planned increased East Slope water diversions during critical springtime runoff and summertime low flow periods.