Peter Nichols practices:
- water law,
- water quality law,
- environmental law, and
- land and water conservation law.
Peter has particular expertise in the federal Clean Water Act and water rights, conservation easements involving water rights, and the temporary use of agricultural irrigation water rights to meet municipal needs.
Peter serves special counsel to the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District on water and agricultural conservation, and as special counsel to the Lower Arkansas Valley Super Ditch Co., Inc., on water leasing for municipal use.
He has also handled water rights and environmental matters for numerous municipalities, including:
- Woodland Park,
- Monte Vista,
- Saguache,
- Crestone, and
- Ouray,
energy companies, such as: Puckett Land Company and Thermo Power, industrial entities, such as Emerson Electric/Micro Motion, mining companies Gold Links Mining and the Revenue Virginius Mine, as well individual farmers and ranchers, among others.
Recent and present conservation clients of Peter’s include Mesa Land Trust, Yampa Valley Land Trust, Colorado Open Lands, Aspen Valley Land Trust, Pitkin County, Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), and the Colorado Water Trust.
Nichols serves as special assistant attorney general to Colorado and New Mexico in national litigation involving the Clean Water Act, e.g., Miccosukee Tribe of Indians v. So. Florida Water Mgmt. Dist., 541 US 95 (2004).
He also represents western water users in these matters, including:
- the National Water Resources Association,
- Western Urban Water Coalition,
- Denver Water,
- Aurora Water,
- Colorado Springs Utilities,
- City of Boulder,
- Central Arizona Water Conservation District,
- Metropolitan Water District of Southern California,
- East Bay Municipal Water District,
- Salt Lake & Sandy Metropolitan Water District,
- Central Utah Water Conservancy District,
- Southern Nevada Water Authority, and
- Truckee Meadows Water Authority
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Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti, LLP
Partner
1712 Pearl Street
Boulder, CO 80203
Phone: (303) 402-1600
Fax: (303) 402-1601
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