2007 Watershed Symposium
1st Annual Salt Lake County
Watershed Symposium
October 3 & 4, 2007
The Salt Lake County Flood Control & Water Quality Division hosted the first annual Salt Lake Countywide Watershed Symposium on October 3 & 4, 2007 at the SouthTowne Expo Center (9575 South State Street).
Who Attended?
The Symposium was attended by approximately 120 people from various backgrounds. From water supply and wastewater experts to interested citizens and activist groups, we are delighted at the expertise and interest that was represented by the Symposium participants.
What was discussed?
Many important issues were discussed at the first annual Salt Lake Countywide Watershed Symposium - both during session and informal chats. The following are the presentations that were used to guide session discussions.
- Living on the Shores of Something Great: Our Great Salt Lake
Lynn de Freitas; Friends of Great Salt Lake - Marketing for Positive Social Change
Jack Wilbur; Utah Department of Agriculture - An Ethical Framework: Open Space Acquisition (1.1 mb)
Patrick A. Shea - Water Supply and WaQSP (710 kb)
Rick Cox; URS Corporation - Climate Change: The Question of Water Supply in the West
Joe Baird; Salt Lake Tribune - Watershed Education: Keep It Pure
Vanessa Welch; Salt Lake City Public Utilities - A Geological Perspective on SL County http://earthscienceeducation.org/index.html
Genevieve Atwood - More Flow for Habitat and Recreation
Nick von Stackelberg; Stantec Consulting - Green Line: Preservation and Riparian Corridors
Arthur Morris; Westminster College - Square One: Constructing a Volunteer Baseline
Patrick Nelson; Cottonwood Canyons Association - Nonpoint Mercury in Our Waters (4.3 mb)
John Whitehead and Patrick Barickman - Directing Stormwater Part I (1.4 mb)
Directing Stormwater Part II (476 kb)
Dan Drumiler and Steve Burgon;
Salt Lake County Engineering Division - Composing the West Bench (6.7 mb)
David White and Carol Wong;
Salt Lake County Planning/Development Services - Guerrilla Warfare: A Battle Against Exotic Plants (875 kb)
Sage Fitch and Phil McCraley - The Next Big Thing in Wastewater Management
Jim Olson; Brown and Caldwell - The Economic Value of Watershed Health (425 kb)
Tristan Last: Wikstrom Economics - Blueprint Jordan River - a Lake to Lake Vision (680 kb)
Jason Green: Envision Utah - Eco-Restoration on the Jordan River
Jen Hajj; Great Salt Lake Audubon Society - Biocontrols and the Tamarisk Beetle
Amber Richman; APHIS - Pollution in Emigration; TMDL Review (1.9 mb)
Natalie Rees; Salt Lake County Engineering Division - Growing Numbers: Density and Land Use Impact Part (410 kb)
Cal Schneller and Scott Festin - Pollution in the Jordan; TMDL Review (1.6 mb)
Jim Harris; Division of Water Quality - Local Efforts in Water Conservation (3.7 mb)
Courtney Brown; Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District - Recreation in the Watershed (4.3 mb)
Carol Majeske; USFS - Introducing the Watershed Function Index (1.4 mb)
Kathlyn Collins; Salt Lake County Engineering Division - Restoring the Jordan River (3.8 mb)
Steve Jensen; Salt Lake County Engineering Division
Watershed Planning and Restoration
2001 S State St NL-400 N3-120
Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4575
Phone: (385) 468-6600
Fax: (385) 468-6603
