Watershed Symposium

Free and open to all, the Salt Lake County Watershed Symposium encourages a comprehensive review of the current state of our watershed while creating learning and networking opportunities for a broad array of stakeholders. Sessions cover water quality and watershed issues with local, regional, and national relevance.

Hosted annually by Salt Lake County's Watershed Planning & Restoration Program.

Contact Lynn Berni

Watershed Planner/Scientist

Phone Number (385) 468-6643

Email Lynn Berni

2025 Watershed Symposium

Get ready for the 2025 Salt Lake County Watershed Symposium! Join us November 19-20, 2025 at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center for two days filled with informative sessions, engaging speakers, and amazing networking opportunities. Learn about the importance of preserving our watershed and how you can get involved in conservation efforts. Connect with like-minded individuals and make a difference in your community.

Call For Abstracts now open! Send us your presentation abstracts (for breakout sessions and posters) by September 25.

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Kudos for the Watershed Symposium

Some of our favorite comments over the years:

"It was great to attend a conference with such a breadth of topics and technical/big-picture talks."

"This is one of the best opportunities to network and build partnering relationships toward supporting a healthier watershed. The free admission and food makes it possible for all to attend and its timely content makes it appealing to an interesting cross-section of professions and disciplines. Great job!"

"Seriously one of the best, well-run conferences I've ever attended."

"It's a wonderful gestalt of useful and insightful information about what's going on in the watershed, which is of course an important bottomline. I love the networking potential and am very proud of the work that Salt Lake County is doing in this area."  ~Lynn DeFreitas, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake

"The Symposium is tremendously important to the future of all of Utah."  ~Zach Frankel, Utah Rivers Council