A Technical Expert

Dr. Shomaker has provided sworn testimony in 34 New Mexico State Engineer water rights hearings, and in administrative hearings before the New Mexico Environment Department and Water Quality Control Commission, Oil Conservation Division, Mining and Minerals Division, and Interstate Stream Commission. He has testified in water matters before New Mexico State District Courts and was appointed Special Master for a State District Court trial. He has testified in interstate litigation before a U.S. Supreme Court Special Master, and before county commissions and committees of the New Mexico Legislature.

He has worked on hundreds of water-right declarations and applications to the New Mexico State Engineer for new appropriations, transfers of water rights, and replacement wells, preparing hydrogeologic studies, calculations of drawdown and streamflow‐depletion effects, and expert testimony.