Madoline Wallace-Gross

Associate

Phone: (303) 776-9900
Fax: (303) 776-9100
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Areas of Practice:

Water Law
Water Quality
Real Estate

Education:

B.S., Journalism, West Virginia University, 1996
J.D., University of Denver, College of Law, 2000
Articles Editor, Water Law Review

Ms. Wallace-Gross primarily practices water law, including water rights litigation, water quality issues and transactional matters, with more than a decade of experience in her field.

Ms. Wallace-Gross assists local governments, including cities, towns, water conservancy districts and water districts, for whom she develops new water supplies, protects existing water rights and completes water rights and real estate transactions. She also works on behalf of ditch and reservoir companies and private water rights owners. She has practiced extensively in the Colorado Water Courts in Division Nos. 1, 2 and 5, and has broad experience working with the State Engineer.

Ms. Wallace-Gross has authored and co-authored numerous published works, including:

• Federal District Court Rejects U.S.-Colorado Compromise Regarding Federal Reserved Water Rights for Gunnison National Park’s Black Canyon, 11 Western Water L. & Pol’y Rep. 3 (November, 2006).
• Book Note, Water Marketing–The Next Generation, 3 U. of Denv. Water L. Rev. 120 (1999).
• Colorado Supreme Court Arguably Rules that an Adjudicated Water Right is a Prerequisite for Maintaining a Ditch Condemnation Proceeding in District Court, 11 Western Water L. & Pol’y Rep. 199 (May 2007).
• Colorado Supreme Court Finds Stipulated Decree Provision Restricts Certain Water Exports from the Upper Black Squirrel Designated Ground Water Basin, 11 Western Water L. & Pol’y Rep. 139 (March 2007).

She is a member of the Water Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association and a member of the Boulder County Bar Association.