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Norman Young recently joined the ERO Resources Boise, Idaho office after 33 years with the State of Idaho Department of Water Resources. Norm specializes in resolving complex water rights and water supply problems by innovatively using water law, administrative policy and technical understanding of water availability and requirements to obtain the legal right to use surface and ground water needed for new projects and to firm up water rights for existing projects. SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE Water Resources Management. Norm served over 25 years as the Administrator of the Water Management Division within the Idaho Department of Water Resources. As the Administrator of Idaho’s programs Norm provided oversight for allocation of surface and ground water resources, adjudication of water rights, distribution of water in accordance with water rights, protection of ground water resources through licensing of water well drillers and well construction, stream channel protection, flood plain management, safety of water storage dams and mine tailings impoundment structures. Norm is experienced as an administrative law hearing officer and in alternative dispute resolution. He has worked closely with lawmakers to successfully develop and implement various innovative water management programs including water banking, managed recharge of ground water and conjunctive management of surface and ground water resources. In addition to responsibilities for the safety of dams and ground water quality protection programs, Norm administered the Carey Act program which included evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of proposals seeking to develop more than 500,000 acres of federal desert land into irrigated family farms. Norm opened the Eastern Idaho regional office of the Department of Water Resources implementing the State's water management programs.
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