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Katherine Ryf, CWRE <br />Principal <br />Expertise <br />Water Rights <br />Water Supply Alternatives <br />Agricultural Practices <br />Water Policy <br />Project Management <br />Liaison between multiple <br />stakeholders <br />Education <br />BS, Environmental <br />Mole: Senior Regulatory/PermittingAdvisor <br />Katherine manages the Quincy office of Landau Associates. Katherine has over 20 years of <br />experience with water rights and water supply solutions. She is highly knowledgeable of <br />Washington and federal water laws, agricultural practices, and real estate acquisition. Prior <br />to Landau Associates, she was a water right analyst for multiple state agencies, including <br />Washington State Department of Ecology, and served as the Board of Directors Vice <br />President and Development Committee Chair for the Friends of Turnbull National Wildlife <br />Refuge. Katherine currently serves on the Grant County Economic Development Council, <br />American Water Resources Association — Washington Chapter Board of Directors, and is a <br />regular participant of the Washington State Department of Ecology Water Resources <br />Advisory and Palouse Basin Aquifer Committees. <br />Port of Quincy, Wastewater Conveyance and Irrigation Basin; Quincy, WA. Feasibility and <br />alternatives analysis for proposed project. <br />Mt. Adams Orchard Company; Kllckltat County, WA. Water right permitting services, <br />including water right extent and validity and beneficial use analysis for orchard expansion. <br />Black Sands, LLC, Grant County, WA. Water rights permitting services, including artificially <br />stored groundwater permit change/transfer application and water rights brokerage in <br />Grant County. Change application performed through a Washington State Department of <br />Ecology Streamlined Cost Reimbursement Contract. <br />Skone and Connors; Grant County, WA. Permitting and compliance services for Soap Lake <br />and Frenchman Hills projects, including water supply portfolio management and water <br />solutions for multiple properties In the Columbia Basin. <br />Monument Hill; Grant County, WA. Water Supply Services, including complex water right <br />change/transfer application shepherded through to a successful approval. Two previous <br />attempts were denied, having been unsuccessfully appealed through the Pollution Control <br />Hearings Board. <br />Biology, Eastern <br />Project Badger Water Rights, Flera Comox Partners; multiple counties, WA. Water Supply <br />Washington university, <br />Portfolio Due Diligence Assessment and Phase I Environmental Site Assessment for <br />2005 <br />properties spanning Grant, Kittitas, and Douglas counties. <br />Wildlife Program, Lands Division, Real Estate Services Section, State of Washington <br />Registration <br />Department of Fish and Wildiife, 2015-2017. Served as the statewide expert In <br />administering water rights forthe agency's more than 900,000 acres of land to conserve <br />Certified Water Right <br />habitat far fish and wildlife, and fish and wildlife related recreation. Oversaw the agency's <br />Examiner: 2018/ <br />efforts to secure water supplies for the operation of many of these lands and all of the <br />Washington, No. 0044 <br />hatchery facilities. <br />Quincy Groundwater Sub -Area, Washington State Department of Ecology, 2000-2015. <br />Served as a regional senior water right analyst and permit manager for the Water <br />Resources Program, responsible for compliance with water right policies and regulations, <br />and Washington Water law and Federal Reclamation law, Ensured consistency of processes <br />and strategic development of integrated water resources management plans in the Quincy <br />Groundwater Subarea, Esquatzel Coulee, Lower Crab, and Grand Coulee watersheds of <br />eastern Washington. <br />Landau Associates OA Statement of Qualifications <br />