South Dakota and North Dakota Water Rights and Water Law Attorney
Advising Landowners, Businesses, Developers, Suppliers, and Governments
Ganje Law Offices advises clients, including landowners, agricultural and industrial businesses, developers, water suppliers, governments, and lenders on water resource issues involving rights to surface water and groundwater as well as on water rights adjudications, sale, lease and transfer of water rights and engages in water rights litigation. David Ganje has served as a member of the Town of Clifton Park New York Environmental Conservation Commission, is a member of the American Bar Association Environmental and Energy Committee, and the South Dakota Bar Environmental and Natural Resources Committee.
Water Rights and Water Law matters handled by the firm include:
- Acquiring water rights
- Representing individual, government and business interests in the acquisition and protection of water rights
- Evaluating water rights held
- Representation of clients before state water agencies, state environmental regulators, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other governmental agencies
- Representation of political subdivisions and private industry, along with developers, industrial users, farmers, property owners water providers and consumers
- Strategic water supply planning
- Water rights audit
- Water rights acquisitions & changes
- Distribution/storage/transmission of water
- State/Federal regulations/ permitting
- Federal Indian law
- Contracts
- Negotiation/facilitation of disputes
- Municipal water issues
- Endangered Species Act
- Clean Water Act
- Environmental permitting
- Administrative appeals & litigation
