Untreated: A Podcast of the Salt Lake County Stormwater Coalition

This episode is an interview with Matthew Hendrix about Salt Lake City's new adopt-a-storm drain volunteer program. This is a wonderful community involvement effort.

Macroinvertebrate sampling can indicate stream health generally. The presence or absence of certain macro species can also tell you about the negative impacts of human activities on stream health and the potential positive impacts of stormwater pollution mitigation activities.

The title artwork for this episode is a recent map of macro sampling locations along Millcreek in Salt Lake County

Hannah Murphy, Salt Lake County Watershed program, tells us a little about macroinvertebrates, insects found in waterways, and why they can tell us so much about the water quality in a stream.

Listen to this 10 minute interview, then watch the video Hannah and her colleague, Sam Taylor, made in the Spring of 2021. Here is the link to the video. https://youtu.be/8I6I3xZm6ak

Justine Marshall, Erosion Control Services, talks about her project with the City of Saratoga Springs to install and maintain 30 FlexStorm storm drain inlet protection boxes near Utah Lake.

When you power wash or pressure wash a building, parking lot, etc. all the dirt and other pollutants you wash away can go down the storm drain and cause pollution. Dawn Barbee with Sandy City explains how you can power wash responsibly and not pollute.

In this episode of Untreated, Lt. Alex Huggard from the SLCo Environmental Task Force talks about teaming up to improve our water. Lt. Huggard is with the Environmental Enforcement Unit of the Salt Lake County District Attorneys Office.  The Task Force is a multi-agency collaboration with the Salt Lake County Health Department and all City, County, and Federal agencies investigating environmental crimes.

In this episode we interview Steve Burgon about why we care about stormwater. 

In this episode we interview Bob Thompson about pet waste and our waterways. 

Bob Thompson is the Watershed Planning and Restoration Section Manager for Salt Lake County Flood Control. This program oversees Salt Lake County’s stream & precipitation gauging network, snow course measurements,  watershed planning and related stream restoration activities and stormwater programs. This team consists of compliance experts, geologists, landscape architects, biologists and environmental scientists dedicated to understanding all things water related in the lower Jordan River basin.