AUGUSTIN PLAINS RANCH, LLC v. D'ANTONIO

No. A-1-CA-38615.

521 P.3d 1226 (2022)

2023-NMCA-001

AUGUSTIN PLAINS RANCH, LLC, Applicant/Appellant-Appellant, v. John D'ANTONIO, P.E., New Mexico State Engineer, Appellee-Appellee, and Catron County Board of County Commissioners; Socorro County Commission; Kokopelli Ranch, LLC; John and Helen A. Hand; the Hand Living Trust; Last Chance Water Company; Monticello Properties, LLC; Double Springs Ranch, LLC; Gila Mountain Ranches, LLC; John Hubert Richardson Revocable Trust; Richardson Family Farms, LLC; City of Truth or Consequences; Cuchillo Valley Community Ditch Association; Salomon Tafoya; Apache Ranch---Kenneth R. Brumit; New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau; Catron County Farm & Livestock Bureau; New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands; Pueblo of Sandia; Pueblo of Santa Ana; Wildearth Guardian; Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District; Pueblo of Zuni; Pueblo of San Felipe; University of New Mexico; Navajo Nation; Advocates for Community & Environment; New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission; Pueblo of Isleta; Manuel and Gladys Baca; Robert and Mona Bassett; Patti Bearpaw; Sue Berry-Fox; (Babe) Ann Boulden; Donald and Joan Brooks; David and Terri Brown; Jack Bruton; Bruton Ranch, LLC; Lisa Burroughs and Thomas Betras, Jr.; Charles and Lucy Cloyes; Michael D. Codini, Jr.; Randy Coil; James and Janet Coleman; Terri Cook; Thomas A. Cook; Wildwood Highlands Landowners Association; Randy Cox; Nancy Crowley; Tom Csurilla; Elk Ridge Pass Development Company, LLC; Top of the World Land Company, LLC; Roger and Dolores Daigger; Michael and Ann Danielson; Bryan and Beverley Dees; John and Eileen Dodds; Louise and Leonard Donahe; Patricia Eberhardt; Roy Farr; Paul and Rose Geasland; Gila Conservation Coalition; Center for Biological Diversity; Gila Watershed Alliance; Mary Rakestraw Greiert; Michael Hasson; Don and Cheryl Hastings; Gary and Carol Hegg; Patricia Henry; Catherine Hill; Eric Hofstetter; Sandy How; M. Ian and Margaret Jenness; Amos Lafon; Marie Lee; Cleda Lenhardt; Rick and Patricia Lindsey; Victoria Linehan; Owen Lorentzen; Mike Loya; Sonia Macdonald; Robert and Susan Mackenzie; Douglas Marable; Thea Marshall; Sam and Kristin McCain; Jeff McGuire; Michael Mideke; Kenneth Mroczek and Janice Przylbyl Mroczek; Peter Naumnik; John Naumnik; Regina Naumnik; Robert Nelson; Veronika Nelson; Walter and Diane Olmstead; Dennis and Gertrude O'Toole; Karl Padgett; Max Padgett; Leo Padgett; Patricia Padgett; Wanda Parker; Ray and Carol Pittman; John Preston and Patricia Murray Preston; Daniel Rael; Stephanie Randolph; Mary Katherine Ray; Kenneth Rowe; Kevin and Priscilla Ryan; Ray and Kathy Sansom; Christopher Scott Sansom; John and Betty Schaefer; Susan Schuhardt; Ann and Bill Schwebke; Janice Simmons; Jim Sonnenberg; Anne Sullivan; Margaret and Roger Thompson; Gloria Weinrich; James Wetzig and Maureen M. Macart; Donald and Margaret Wiltshire; Kristin Eckvall; Rozalyn Murphy; Ronald Wilson; David P. Smith; Carmela L. Warner; Homestead Landowners Association; Joseph and Janet Siomiak; Patricia Germain; Jonathan Benedict; Michael Murray; John Pohl; Barbara Owens; Abbe Springs Homeowners Association; Raven Reitstetter; Chris and Helen Dossett; Kenneth and Diana Fry; Albert Goodman; William Gysin; Paul G. Kotula; Karl and Jane Mears; Thomas and Linda Pampinella; and Tom Betras, Protestants/Appellees-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Certiorari Denied, October 28, 2022, No. S-1-SC-39556.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Montgomery & Andrews, P.A., Jeffrey J. Wechsler , Kari E. Olson , Kaleb W. Brooks , Santa Fe, NM, Draper & Draper LLC, John B. Draper Santa Fe, NM, for Appellant.

Hector H. Balderas , Attorney General, Gregory C. Ridgley , General Counsel, Nathaniel Chakeres , Deputy General Counsel, Maureen C. Dolan , Special Assistant Attorney General, Simi Jain , Special Assistant Attorney General, Santa Fe, NM, Attorney at Law LLC, L. Christopher Lindeen , Special Assistant Attorney General, Santa Fe, NM, Abramowitz and Franks, Martha C. Franks , Santa Fe, NM, for Appellee New Mexico State Engineer.

Domenici Law Firm, PC, Pete Domenici , Lorraine Hollingsworth , Albuquerque, NM, for Appellee Catron County Board of County Commissioners.

New Mexico Environmental Law Center, Gail Evans , Douglas Meiklejohn , Charles de Saillan , Eric D. Jantz , Maslyn Locke , Santa Fe, NM, for Appellees (not otherwise separately listed).

Davidson Law Firm, LLC, Tessa T. Davidson , Corrales, NM, for Appellees Helen A. Hand and Hand Living Trust.

Coppler Law Firm, P.C., Frank R. Coppler , John L. Appel , Santa Fe, NM, for Appellee City of Truth or Consequences, NM.

Navajo Nation Department of Justice, Daniel G. Moquin , Lisa Yellow Eagle , Window Rock, Navajo Nation, AZ, for Appellee Navajo Nation.

Hennighausen Olsen & McCrea, L.L.P., A.J. Olsen , Gabriella T. Miller , Roswell, NM, for Appellee Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District.

Steffani A. Cochran , General Counsel, Bernalillo, NM, for Appellee Pueblo of Sandia.

Barnhouse Keegan Solimon & West LLP, Veronique Richardson , Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM for Appellee Pueblo of Santa Ana.

Advocates for Community and Environment, Simeon Herskovits , Iris Thornton , El Prado, NM, for Appellee San Augustin Water Coalition.

Samantha Ruscavage-Barz , Daniel Timmons , Santa Fe, NM, for Appellee Wildearth Guardians.


OPINION

{1} After reviewing the State Engineer's decision to deny Appellant Augustin Plains Ranch, LLC's (Applicant) application to appropriate groundwater, the district court dismissed with prejudice Applicant's 2014 Application to appropriate groundwater from the San Agustin Basin. We reverse and remand...

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