Bruce E. Kroeker, TZA Water Engineers, Lakewood, Colorado

Bruce E. Kroeker, President

Experience
Mr. Kroeker joined the firm in 1981 and became president in 1988. He has over twenty-seven years of experience in water resources development, management, and protection. He has conducted and managed projects which involved water rights analysis, water supply planning, hydrologic investigations of surface and ground water supplies, ground water modeling, river basin modeling, and ground water contamination assessments at industrial facilities. He has extensive experience in presenting expert testimony in courts and administrative hearings. His clients include large and small municipalities, water districts, businesses, industrial operators, irrigation companies, land developers, and farmers and ranchers.

Registrations
Registered Professional Engineer in California (Civil), Colorado, and Wyoming (Civil); Certified Engineering Expert Witness by the American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado

Publications and Presentations
Will Increasing the Efficiency of Agricultural Water Use Increase Water Supplies in the Arid West? CONSERV 90. Phoenix, Arizona. 1990.
Reallocation of Water from Agricultural to Municipal Use - The Colorado Approach. CONSERV 90. Phoenix, Arizona. 1990.
Case Presentation: The Expert Witness' Role. Thirteenth Annual Summer Program of the Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law and the Rocky Mountain Groundwater Conference. 1992.
Transfer of Water Rights from Agricultural to Municipal Uses in Northern Colorado - A Case Study. Competing Interests in Water Resources - Searching for Consensus, a Conference sponsored by the U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage. Las Vegas, Nevada. 1996. (Coauthor of paper with Dennis A. Bode)
Well Augmentation Plans: Current Developments in Water Division No. 1. CLE International Colorado Water Law Conference, Denver, Colorado. 2005.

Professional Organizations
American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works Association, Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, Colorado Ground Water Association, Consulting Engineers Council of Colorado - Water Resources Committee

Education
M.S., Colorado State University, Agricultural Engineering, 1980.

B.S., East Central Oklahoma State University, Environmental Science, 1977. Graduated with Honors.