Law Offices of Matthew  Emrick

Our firm has a long history with assisting clients with obtaining and protecting their water rights.  Our clients include both private and public agency clients from the north coast to the Delta to the eastern sierra. 

  Water Rights and Supply

• Acquiring water rights
• Water rights permitting and licensing
• Water rights investigations, determinations and due diligence.
• Surface Water Rights, riparian rights, pre-1914 appropriative rights
• Groundwater rights.
• Water supply verifications.
• Water transfers
• In-stream flow analysis
• Water rights adjudications and litigation
• AB 2121 Instream Flow
• Change Petitions, Petitions for extensions of time.
• Defending enforcement actions before the State Water Resources Control Board.
• State-wide practice.

     Water Quality

• NPDES Permits
• Waste Discharges Requirements
• Representation and defending against enforcement actions

    Wetlands

• Streambed Alteration Agreements
• Endangered Species, Take Permits, Habitat Conservation Plans
• 404 Permits