SPRONK WATER ENGINEERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Principal Water Resources Engineer and Vice President of SWE
Mr. Clements has more than 30 years experience performing engineering analysis relating to water rights, water resources, and hydrology for a variety of clients throughout the western United States. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado and New Mexico. Mr. Clements has assisted numerous clients, including municipalities, real estate developers, water and sanitation districts, and ditch companies in the areas of water rights engineering and water supply planning and development. Mr. Clements has extensive experience in performing historical consumptive use analysis for the transfer of agricultural water rights to municipal use throughout Colorado. Mr. Clements has also served as a consultant to various clients in order to protect their water rights from injury due to appropriation of new water rights or changes of water rights by other water users. Mr. Clements has provided expert testimony in over twenty cases in Colorado District Court Water Division 1, the Adams County District Court, and Office of Administrative Hearings in State of Oregon (Oregon).
In 2007, Mr. Clements was one of 21 members appointed to the Water Court Committee of the Colorado Supreme Court by Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey. The Water Court Committee is charged with reviewing the water court process in Colorado. Mr. Clements chaired the Education Subcommittee and has been instrumental in developing continuing education programs for attorneys and engineers practicing in the water rights field. He continues to serve on the standing committee of the Colorado Supreme Court.
Job Titles:
- Principal Water Resources Engineer and Secretary of SWE
Mr. Sullivan has more than 25 years experience completing a wide variety of water resources engineering projects. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado, Idaho, and New Mexico. Mr. Sullivan has extensive experience performing historical consumptive use analysis, stream depletions analysis, and reservoir operations studies. In addition, Mr. Sullivan serves as the primary consultant to numerous water providers for water supply planning and development. In that role, he has been responsible for the development of complex surface water operations models that simulates the water demands of the entity and how those demands maybe met by its portfolio of water rights. Mr. Sullivan has served on the Eastern Snake Hydrologic Modeling Committee for development of a regional ground water model of the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer since 1996.
Mr. Sullivan has provided expert testimony in the U.S. Supreme Court, Colorado District Court Water Division 1, District Court Douglas County, Snake River Basin Adjudication Court (Idaho), and the Idaho Department of Water Resources administrative hearing process.
Job Titles:
- Registered Professional Engineer in Colorado
- Senior Water Resources Engineer
Mr. Mayberry is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado and has more than 20 years of experience in water resources engineering, water rights valuations, historical consumptive use analyses, plans for augmentation, and irrigated area analyses. Mr. Mayberry specializes in GIS based applications of mapping and data analysis. He has completed extensive mapping projects of water resources projects and facilities. He is experienced in the collection of water measurement data and installation of flow measurement devices. He collects and analyzes water resources, water rights and hydrologic information in connection with historical water use analyses and water rights evaluations and has performed analyses in support of projects in Colorado and many other western states.
Representative projects Jon has previously completed include documentation of lawngrass irrigation return flow for Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority, evaluation of claims for reserved water rights in the Klamath Basin in Oregon and the Salmon River Basin in Idaho, water rights analyses for Eagle County and documentation of water rights and facilities on the Bradbury Ranch near Byers, Colorado. Jon has also completed basin-wide mapping for a number of projects, including irrigated area in the Arkansas River Basin in Colorado, the Republican River Basin and the Yellowstone River Basin in Wyoming and Montana, and water facilities in the Rio Chama Basin in New Mexico and the Fulton Ditch service area and ditch facilities.
Job Titles:
- Project Water Resources Engineer
Ms. Leone has more than 15 years of engineering experience including: surface water and ground water hydrology and modeling, historical consumptive use analyses, plans for augmentation, changes of water rights, substitute water supply plans, model and database development and analysis, augmentation plan accounting, stream depletion analyses, ground water resource assessments, project management, monitoring well installation and other field investigations. She has served as an expert witness in hearings before the State Engineer. Ms. Leone is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado. She also has extensive experience in GIS applications related to water resources. She is a member of the American Water Resources Association (AWRA), Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG), and the Colorado Foundation for Water Education (CFWE).
Ms. Roberts joined Spronk Water Engineers in May 2004. She has more than 20 years of administrative and secretarial experience. She performs a variety of duties, including bookkeeping, correspondence, receptionist, public relations and other administrative tasks.