Water Law Blog

Laura Schroeder will present her popular “Water Rights Bootcamp” on JUNE 2 in Sisters, Oregon. This presentation will be an educational seminar suitable for all with and interest and concern for water rights in Oregon. For details and an agenda see the Schroeder Law Offices web site.

Tough times dictate that we cut our discretionary spending.  Property owners may defer some maintenance and other due diligence.  But spending money on education and protecting your property interests must be considered a continued important investment that is not discretionary.

Hunkering down and waiting for it to pass us by will not work.  Business as usual will not work because the usual isn’t any more.  Everything has changed. It is unlikely that what we once thought “normal” will ever be again.

For only $75, you will be both educated and entertained at a full day advanced water rights educational seminar.  Register at www.water-law.com.  If you missed our bootcamp, no matter:  We will answer any questions you bring to the advanced seminar to raise you to the advanced level!

Another opportunity for only $375 is to have us make a specific public records request and pull all your water rights files to provide you with a full electronic copy. Likely you keep your deed to the property is a safe place, your water right files should have equal status.  Many property owners have more value in their water rights than the dirt and don’t even know it.  At minimum, we recommend obtaining your water rights files.  Email Ms. Daryl Cole:  d.cole@water-law.com to obtain a water rights authorization form to make this due diligence investment.

The Oregon Ground Water Association (OGWA) is holding their Spring Technical Conference on March 6-7, 2009 at the Oregon Garden Resort in Silverton Oregon.

Schroeder Law Offices’ Therese Ure will join the panel discussion on Government Affairs which will discuss and consider the 2009 Legislation’s proposed bills relating to the ground water industry.

For more information, you can contact Therese Ure or view the OGWA’s website at www.ogwa.org.

On Tuesday, January 27th while speaking on hot topics in water at the annual Oregon Water Coalition meeting in Hermiston Oregon, Laura Schroeder, Cortney Duke and Therese Ure announced the Schroeder Law Office new Hermiston Oregon location.

Attorney Therese Ure will be making a monthly rotation of up to 10 days a month in the Hermiston, Schroeder Law Office location. In general, Therese will be in the Hermiston office during the first week of the month. Appointments can be made with Therese by contacting Ms Daryl Cole at 1-800-574-8813. You may also contact Therese directly via email at t.ure@water-law.com or via telephone at 541-612-4840.

Schroeder Law Office attorneys represent water users, municipalities, agri-businesses, and other agricultural based organizations in Oregon, Nevada, Washington, and Idaho. Laura Schroeder is also working as a water consultant internationally. Attorney Ure’s practice focuses on agricultural and rural water issues. She is well suited to this focus being a native of rural eastern Oregon and a member of a fourth generation of family farmers.

Schroeder’s law practice includes offices in Portland Oregon and Reno Nevada.

For the Oregon Water Coalition’s 2009 Annual Membership Meeting and Water Conference, Laura A. Schroeder, Cortney D. Duke, and Therese A. Ure will present a two hour seminar covering two main topics including:

1) Ground Water
a) Critical Ground Water
b) Division 33 Rules
c) Peak Flows

2) New Legislation
a) SB 1069
b) Long Term Planning
c) Columbia River Mitigation

The conference will be on Tuesday, January 27, 2009, from 8:30 AM to 1:15 PM at the Hermiston Conference Center. 415 S. Highway 395, Hermiston Oregon.

For registration and more information contact 541-567-6151

Colm Moore and Laura Schroeder will present a 4-hour seminar on Nevada water rights in Winnemucca on December 9 and in Elko on December 10. For more information click here.

To get a working basic knowledge of water law in Oregon, consider attending a Water Law Bootcamp. Laura Schroeder teaches an all day educational water law seminar for free. The sponsoring organization, usually Water for Life, provides coffee and lunch and charges less than 25% of other similar continuing education accredited seminars.

As a former educator with a major in Theatre, Laura makes the day not only educational, but fun and entertaining! The day is filled with information on the history of water law; the prior appropriation doctrine; obtaining permits, extensions, transfers, and certificates; avoiding forfeiture and abandonment; and general due diligence tips related to water marketing.

Yesterday, I had the privilege of teaching a Water Law Bootcamp for Water for Life. Over forty people attended at the Baker County Fairgrounds in Baker City Oregon. Unlike previous presentations, attendees focused their questions primarily on due diligence water rights review in real estate transactions and valuations of water rights when lending on water righted properties. Apparently in these economic times, realtors and lenders are giving much more scrutiny to what water rights exist on the property subject to a transaction.