Water Law

PHOENIX – Gammage & Burnham is pleased to share it has been ranked nationally in eight practice areas and ranked regionally in 30 practice areas by the 2024 edition of “Best Law Firms®” by Best Lawyers.

Rankings are based on client feedback on several criteria, including its practice groups, responsiveness, understanding of each client’s business, cost-efficiency, civility, and whether they would refer another client to the firm. The selection process also includes the collection of peer evaluations and a final review by leading attorneys in each field.

The firm received national rankings for the following practice areas:

• Construction Law
• Land Use and Zoning Law
• Corporate Law
• Health Care Law
• Litigation – Construction
• Litigation – Real Estate
• Securities Regulation
• Securitization and Structured Finance Law

The firm was also recognized for its work in the Phoenix metropolitan area in the following practice areas:

• Administrative / Regulatory Law (Tier 1)
• Appellate Practice (Tier 1)
• Arbitration
• Banking and Finance Law (Tier 1)
• Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights
• Business Organizations (Tier 1)
• Commercial Finance Law (Tier 1)
• Commercial Litigation (Tier 1)
• Commercial Transactions / UCC Law (Tier 1)
• Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law
• Construction Law (Tier 1)
• Corporate Law
• Corporate Governance Law
• Environmental Law
• Government Relations Practice (Tier 1)
• Health Care Law (Tier 1)
• Land Use & Zoning Law (Tier 1)
• Litigation – Bankruptcy
• Litigation – Construction (Tier 1)
• Litigation – Health Care (Tier 1)
• Litigation – Intellectual Property
• Litigation – Labor & Employment
• Litigation – Land Use & Zoning (Tier 1)
• Litigation – Real Estate
• Mergers & Acquisitions Law
• Natural Resources Law (Tier 1)
• Real Estate Law (Tier 1)
• Securities Regulation
• Securitization and Structured Finance Law
• Water Law (Tier 1)

Celebrating 40 years since our founding, Gammage & Burnham continues to get the job done because we know Arizona — its laws, values, customs, and people.

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PHOENIX – Gammage & Burnham is pleased to announce that Alexandra M. Arboleda has joined the firm as a member, where she will focus her practice on water and natural resources law.  She has extensive experience working on general stream adjudications, groundwater management, and Colorado River issues representing a variety of municipalities, utilities, real estate developers, golf courses, irrigation districts, farmers, and ranchers. Her knowledge of water law and policy has allowed her to develop innovative solutions to secure reliable and resilient water supplies for her clients.

Additionally, she is an elected member of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District Board of Directors.

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Some 40 million people in the American West rely on water from the Colorado River. But the river’s flow has diminished, and those decreases will likely continue. What does this mean for the American West in general and California and Arizona in particular? Will booming metro areas—Maricopa County, for example—have to halt their growth? Will vast expanses of agriculture disappear? Or is there reason to be optimistic about the West’s water future? Grady Gammage Jr. and Sarah Porter of Arizona State University’s Kyl Center for Water Policy discuss the issue.

View the podcast here.

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Authored by Kyle Stenseth, with contributions from Michael Pearce, Grady Gammage, Jr, and Stephen Anderson.

What Happened:

On June 1, 2023, the Arizona Department of Water Resources (“ADWR”) released a new groundwater model for the Phoenix Active Management Area (“AMA”) through ADWR’s Assured Water Supply (“AWS”) program.  The model covers the Hassayampa and East and West Salt River Valley sub-basins of the AMA, which captures most of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.  The model projects that at the end of a 100-year projection period—in the year 2123—four percent (4%) of the total simulated groundwater demand in the sub-basins will be unmet.

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On March 8th, 2022, AZ Central published an opinion piece from G&B Founder Grady Gammage Jr.  Among the topics discussed are the proposed Arizona Water Authority, the potential for desalination as a long-term augmentation project, and the lessons learned from his 2021 study “Return to Watering the Sun Corridor“.

Read the Op-Ed here!

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