Monthie, Dave

Dave Monthie is an attorney licensed to practice in Washington and California, and has his own small private practice (DLM & Associates) in Olympia. Most recently he was a regional water policy analyst with King County since 2000. Prior to that he worked as staff at the Drinking Water Program (now Office of Drinking Water) of the Washington Department of Health, as staff counsel to various committees of the Washington State Senate, and as staff counsel to the California Department of Water Resources. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP), and co-author of an amicus brief filed by CELP with the Supreme Court in the Yelm case. The opinions expressed in this article are his, and are not to be construed as representing the views of CELP. The author also represented Aqua Permanente, a non-profit organization opposed to further use of exempt wells in the Upper Kittitas Valley, in an amicus brief filed with the Washington Supreme Court in a separate case addressing the use of exempt wells for stockwatering (Five Corners Family Farmers et al v. State of Washington, 173 W.2d 296, 268 P.3d 892 (2011)).