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Todd Votteler

Ph.D.

“Collaborative Water Resolution LLC - Resolution of Intractable Water and Environmental Conflicts”

TexasRemote available

Core Practice Areas

3 Verticals
✓Zoning & Permitting Issues
✓Environmental Claims
✓Public Policy Disputes
✓Certified Neutral
✓Court-Approved ADR

About & Mediation Philosophy

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Collaborative Water Resolution LLC, provides its clients with decades of experience in the resolution of intractable water and environmental conflicts. Through mediation, facilitation, strategic issue analysis, and personnel evaluation and recruitment, Collaborative Water Resolution LLC provides its clients with the highest level of professional assistance. The dispute resolution, legal, scientific and managerial experience of Dr. Todd Votteler make Collaborative Water Resolution LLC a unique resource for governments, courts, and companies faced with looming water and environmental disputes. Todd H. Votteler, Ph.D. has over 25 years of experience with complex water and environmental disputes. Votteler is the Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Water Journal. He was Executive Manager of Science, Intergovernmental Relations & Policy for the Guadalupe–Blanco River Authority where he regularly worked with the media, state and federal administrative agencies, the Texas Legislature and the U.S. Congress. He was the first Executive Director of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Trust, a 501(c)3 land and water trust. He served as Chairman of the Texas Land Trust Council. Votteler was appointed by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Lucius Bunton as the Federal Special Master for the Endangered Species Act (ESA) litigation, Sierra Club v. San Antonio. Prior to that he assisted Federal Court Monitor Joe G. Moore, Jr. during the landmark ESA litigation over the Edwards Aquifer, Sierra Club v. Babbitt.

Credentials & Institutional Standing

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License

Ph.D.

Education

Texas State University

Ph.D. · Geography

Class of 2000

The University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment

M.S. · Natural Resources

Class of 1989

The University of the South

B.S. · Natural Resources

Class of 1986

Work History

5 Positions

Editor-in-Chief

Texas Water Journal

Executive Manager of Science, Intergovernmental Relations & Policy

Guadalupe–Blanco River Authority

Regularly worked with the media, state and federal administrative agencies, the Texas Legislature and the U.S. Congress.

Federal Special Master

U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas

Sierra Club v. San Antonio, et al., No. MO-96-CA-097. ESA litigation concerning aquatic species dependent upon spring discharge from the Edwards Aquifer. Prepared a regional drought management plan adopted by the Court.

Assistant to the Court Monitor

U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas

Sierra Club, et al. v. Bruce Babbitt, et al., MO-91-CA-069. Assisted the Court Monitor in researching and preparing the 1994 and 1995 drought management plans for the Edwards Aquifer and a regional habitat conservation plan.

Executive Director

Guadalupe-Blanco River Trust

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