Matthew Machado, Attorney

Mr. Machado primarily works in the Water Practice Group of the firm, and has ten years of experience assisting farmers, landowners, developers, ditch companies, special districts and municipalities in acquiring, selling, developing and protecting interests in water rights and land. He has also represented clients in appeals to the Colorado Supreme Court, and in proceedings in Water Court, as well as before the Colorado Ground Water Commission, Colorado State Engineer and Colorado Water Quality Control Commission.

Mr. Machado has obtained decrees for new tributary and nontributary water rights, plans for augmentation, changes of water rights, and diligence findings. He has also represented clients in transactions for the purchase and sale of land, easements and water rights. Mr. Machado is a member of the Colorado Water Congress and regularly attends meetings of the State Affairs Committee that advises the State General Assembly on pending legislative matters.

Mr. Machado's publications include:

• Matthew Machado, The Jones Ditch Decision: The Woes of the Owner of Mutual Ditch Company Shares Used on Expanded Acreage, November, 2007, Boulder County Bar Ass'n Newsletter.
• Jeffrey J. Kahn, Mark D. Detsky and Matthew Machado, Current Issues with Changes of Water Rights Involving Shares of Mutual Ditch Companies, September, 2007, DARCA Ditch Company Handbook.
• Matthew Machado, Mounting Opposition to Biosphere Reserves and World Heritage Sites in the U.S. Sparked by Claims of Interference With U.S. Sovereignty, 1997 Colo. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y Y.B.

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