Description: Join us to explore how collaboration and adaptive strategies can drive long-term watershed success. In this webinar, we’ll provide key takeaways and lessons learned from over 15 years of coordinated watershed management under the Black River Initiative. With notable water quality improvements, this effort showcases how sustained partnerships, data-driven strategies, and locally led implementation can deliver measurable results.

This webinar will highlight the value of monitoring nutrients, sediment, and phosphorus loading, and how Nine Element (9E) Watershed Plans helped support these efforts. Attendees will explore how professionals can engage with 9E plans and how these planning tools complement long-term watershed management goals and help sustain local water resources.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how adaptive management, local leadership, and collaboration contribute to measurable watershed outcomes.
• Gain insight into how 9E plans support both planning and on-the-ground projects to improve water quality.
• Explore how utility staff and local agencies can play a key role in sustaining water resources.

Presenters: Jes Eckerlin, Project Associate, Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center, Nichelle Swisher, District Manager, Lewis County Soil and Water Conservation District, Sarah Trick, Environmental Resource Specialist, Jefferson County Soil and Water Conservation District, and Emily Fell, Eastern Great Lakes Watershed Coordinator, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

Certificate: This webinar has NOT been submitted for approval of continuing education credit. We can provide a certificate of attendance to eligible attendees, but cannot guarantee it will meet your PDH or CEU requirements.

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