Get Ready and Secure your Water Rights
It is time to get prepared. Aspect can help.
What Should I do in Advance of the Adjudication?
The adjudication will be faster, less costly, and less scary for you with some upfront work. For example:
There are records you can begin to assemble or data that you can collect now that will help you defend your water right.
Your right may span your property and your neighbors’. Agreeing how the right is divided and formalizing that ahead of time will streamline your review.
You may have compliance issues that Adjudication Court won’t resolve, including water uses outside your water right authorization. Knowing, and potentially resolving, these issues before the adjudication is advised.
You may have underuse that creates relinquishment risk, but a relinquishment exception may apply that protects your right. These are highly fact-specific and getting this documentation prepared ahead of time can prevent a loss in your water right.
If you are uncertain about your water right status, contact Aspect’s water right’s experts. Ecology has indicated that they will begin accepting court filings by 2023 for WRIA 1. To give yourself more certainty, scheduling a water right assessment now will put you and your water rights into a good position to succeed.
Schedule Your Pre-Adjudication Water Right Assessment Now
Aspect’s Confidential Water Right Assessment allows you to prepare for the adjudication, reduce your risk that your water right will be diminished, and resolve any compliance issues up-front. Our work is:
Confidential – keeps your water rights info secure
Clear – easy to understand language helps communicate complex water right issues into lay-terms
Timely– 1-2 month turnaround for most investigations
Professional – With licenses engineers, hydrogeologists, and Certified Water Right Examiners on staff, Aspect can full assess your water use and water right needs.
Valuable—the cost of this assessment equates to the value of about 1 acre-foot of water, typically a very small fraction of your total water right value.