AQUIFER SCIENCE, LLC v. VERHINES

No. A-1-CA-39080.

527 P.3d 667 (2022)

2023-NMCA-020

AQUIFER SCIENCE, LLC, Applicant-Appellant/Appellant, v. Scott A. VERHINES, New Mexico State Engineer, Appellee/Appellee, and County of Bernalillo; Hermosilla Estates Neighborhood Association; Intermountain Conservation Trust; Old Sandia Park Service Cooperative; Ponderosa Ranch Estates Landowners, INC.; San Pedro Creek Estates Homeowners Association; Wildflower Neighborhood Association; Charlotte Abbink; Russell Abbink; Rebecca Alzheimer; Rosemary Amspaugh; Rod Baker; Stevan Baron; Caryl Baron; Scott Barron; David A. Benson; Nancy C. Benson; Phyllis Bergman; Ronald P. Bohannan; Thomas P. Boyce; Nathaneal Brown; Carolyn K. Bryan; George T. Bryan; Peggy M. Bryan; Dee Butler; William I. Butler Jr.; Don Cain; Marie Cain; Mike Camp; Jack Campbell; Don Carnicom; Mina Carnicom; Margaret M. Carroll; Tom Christensen; Michael Cook; Joseph A. Cooper; Kathy G. Cooper; Beth Corwin; Maria V. Cunningham; Joel Darnold; Lisa Darnold; Barbara David; Richard Davis; Darielle Dexheimber; Richard A. Dunn; Susan Giambattista; Dale W. Gunn; Mark Gunter; James T. Hanlon; Kathleen A. Hanlon; Rebecca S. Hartley; Karen C. Haworth; Michael D. Haworth; John F. Hayes; Lynn Henrickson; Barbara S. Herrington; Joanne Hilton; David J. Holcomb; Bradley C. Hosmer; Zita Hosmer; Tracee Hudson; Larry Ilfeld; Curtis Johnson; Patti Jones; Reese Jones; Dale Kennedy; Charles King; Arnold G. Klein; Theodore I. Lambert; Mary A. Laraia; Marlys Lesley; Patrick Lesley; Nancy A. Logan; Robert M. Lopez; Frances Lusso; James E. Mallinson; Marilyn H. Mallinson; Mark Manzutto; Ronald E. Massie; Barbara McCarty; Ronald McCarty; Kathy McCoy; Arjan Melwani; Sharmila Melwani; Paula Michel; Tom Michel; James Mildren; Venesee Mildren; Dorothy Mitchell; Kerry Molnar; Peter Molnar; Andrew J. Mooney; Clifford D. Morris; Gayle J. Morris; Lorna Morrow; Paul Morrow; Jim Mullany; Marjorie Mullany; G. Mark Naylor; Tina Nenoff; Erin O'Neil; Jack O'Neil; Jacqueline Orr; John Orr; Jerry Page; Karen Page a/k/a Karen Walker; Andree Peek; Doug Peek; Hans Petersen; Mark Pickering; Susan Pickering; Sylvia Pierce; Richard Ragle; Dan R. Richey; Judith B. Richey; Katrina Rivers; David J. Roesch; Doug Salmi; Karen Salmi; Carol Sanders-Reed; John N. Sanders-Reed; Rebecca Schnelker; Jill Schumacher; Donna Schuyler; Richard Schuyler; Julie Lynch Seimers; Barry Silbaugh; Carolyn J. Simmons; Jerry A. Simmons; Sue Ann Slates; Antoinette Smith; Robert Smith; Vera Sprunt; Elaine M. Stephens; Anne Strader; Jo Elise Tabacchi; Margaret Burges Taylor; Robert K. Taylor; Jonathan Thomas; David E. Thompson; Brian Tyree; Ovidiu Viorica; Birute Watson; Saul Barry Wax; David Weaver; Albert Webb; Denise Webb; Angela Welford; David W. Wentworth; Jeanne S. Wentworth; Tim Willis; Janet Winchester-Silbaugh; Jan Wiste; Carol J. Wood; James A. Wood; Jan Wright; and Mary Ann Zanner, Protestants-Appellees/Appellees.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Certiorari Denied, January 30, 2023, No. S-1-SC-39734.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hinkle Shanor LLP, Julie A. Sakura , Dioscoro A. Blanco , Santa Fe, NM, Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A., Edward Ricco Albuquerque, NM, for Appellant.

Jalbright Law, LLC, Jeffrey H. Albright , Albuquerque, NM, for Appellee County of Bernalillo.

Paul Hultin , Santa Fe, NM, New Mexico Environmental Law Center, Maslyn Locke , Santa Fe, NM, Durham, Pittard & Spalding, LLP, Caren I. Friedman , Rosalind B. Bienvenu , Justin R. Kaufman , Santa Fe, NM, for Appellees San Pedro Creek Estates Homeowners Association, Old Sandia Park Service Cooperative, Rosemary Amspaugh, Caryl Baron, Phyllis Bergman, Nathaneal Brown, Anne Strader, Carolyn K. Bryan, Margaret M. Carroll, Tom Christensen, Joanne Hilton, Beth Corwin, Richard Davis, Barbara Davis, Barbara S. Herrington, David J. Holcomb, Kathy McCoy, Dale Kennedy, Charles King, Karen Salmi, Marlyss Lesley, Frances Lusso, David Weaver, Jim Mullany, Marjorie Mullany, Jerry Page, Ricard Ragle, Doug Salmi, Carol Sanders-Reed, Julie Lynch Seimers, Barry Silbaugh, Janet Winchester-Silbaugh, Carolyn J. Simmons, Jerry A. Simmons, Sue Ann Slates, Robert Smith, Antoinette Smith, and Jan Wiste.


OPINION

{1} Appellant Aquifer Science, LLC (Aquifer Science) appeals the district court's judgment denying its request to appropriate water from the Sandia Underground Water Basin (Sandia Basin). Aquifer Science argues that (1) the district court's analysis of impairment...

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