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[firebird]

I was up Pipeline Rd today checking out that area for the first time in several years. It's sad how much the roadside and river bank are used as dumping grounds. I almost ran into an SUV with a Christmas tree on top on the way out. The guy must've been looking off the side of the road for a good place to dump it. Sure, a Christmas tree doesn't do any harm but the guy probably makes trips up there all the time to get rid of stuff. I'll be there to help out but it seems kind of futile to have to do this every year. We pay taxes to have our garbage picked up, pay fees for disposing all the other stuff that doesn't get picked up and then have to volunteer to pick up after morons who have no respect for our environment. I'm sure the amount of illegal dumping skyrocketed when the City stopped the annual Spring pick up. Any brilliant solutions out there?

[chris gadsden]

I was up Pipeline Rd today checking out that area for the first time in several years. It's sad how much the roadside and river bank are used as dumping grounds. I almost ran into an SUV with a Christmas tree on top on the way out. The guy must've been looking off the side of the road for a good place to dump it. Sure, a Christmas tree doesn't do any harm but the guy probably makes trips up there all the time to get rid of stuff. I'll be there to help out but it seems kind of futile to have to do this every year. We pay taxes to have our garbage picked up, pay fees for disposing all the other stuff that doesn't get picked up and then have to volunteer to pick up after morons who have no respect for our environment. I'm sure the amount of illegal dumping skyrocketed when the City stopped the annual Spring pick up. Any brilliant solutions out there?

Great you can help out. No easy answers unless the government takes a harder stance by clamping down on these people that abuse the environment day in and day out.

We can only do what we can to keep some of our rivers clean the best we can like many of us do on the Chilliwack Vedder River where we have taken 72.87 tonnes off its banks since we started the Chilliwack Vedder River Cleanup Society in 2001 where we have held 33 cleanups. One could imagine how this river system would look it all that amount of garbage was still there. Unfortunately some fisher need to do a better job of taking their stuff away too instead of just dumping it on the ground.

Yesterday I cleaned up about 50 pounds of garbage left by the Hydro Bridge on the Vedder, piled in the riparian zone, to be washed down river during the next high water event.

Good work to those putting on your cleanup this Sunday and good on you for helping out too. Lets hope for a good turnout by users of this river.

Check out the CVRC's web site at www.cleanrivers.ca if you want more information on our Adopt a River program.

[Sandman]

Yesterday I cleaned up about 50 pounds of garbage left by the Hydro Bridge on the Vedder, piled in the riparian zone, to be washed down river during the next high water event.

Oh, come one now.  There is lots of room left in the gyre.  What's the harm?

[firebird]

What is bewildering is that a lot of people on that beach probably don't even notice the garbage.

[Rodney]

Excellent turnout at the Coquitlam River cleanup today! Half of the people had already left to the river when I took this photo.



This was our haul in the morning. Most of the volunteers are still out until 2:00pm.

Many thanks to Michaelt for getting the word out and Gary for putting the event together.

[arimaBOATER]

Global tv noon news had a report on the clean up ...cameras showed the many people...interview with one chap told of plastic from th 6 pk beer cans..even sleeping bags in the water etc...
Coquitlam is within the top ten BC rivers that are threatened by pollution the reporter mentioned.

Looking at Rod's pic ...with that line up outside the tackle shop made me think that passerbys driving by that busy intersection may assume there is a BIG SALE on !!!!

[chris gadsden]

Good coverage on the 6 news tonight on Global, well done all.

[firebird]

I'm in the photo  Count 6 heads over from the left side of the doorway ... blue jacket with grey collar and ball cap on  Was extremely impressed with the turnout and the haul of garbage. Way to go everyone! I plan to help on the Chilliwack and Squamish cleanups too.

[firstlight]

Is great that the clean-up was a success.
Is too bad they still allow all that silt to spill into the river.
There are ways to stop it but money gets in the way.

[firebird]

Yep, and the dumping of new garbage will begin any evening now 

[troutbreath]

Was a few people out to help clean up all the crap that the white trash of the area tossed out. Having lived in PoCo foe 15 years during the early 80s to mid 90s I was shocked by the amount of garbage around there now. I thought Surrey was bad


On approach to the sign up spot    



I ended up by the hachery area where some people enshrine trees with garbage.



Came across his freaking structure.

 


I guess the idea is to replicate the trash shrine
 




I got a good part of the trash out.

Lots of hard work to clean up what some losers throw over the bank. Next time i'll bring a winch.

[Sandman]

What are you doing raiding my campsite?  Get your own shoes!

[firebird]

You come across camps of homeless people up and down the Coquitlam. Unfortunately, some of them simply abandon them when winter comes.

[Bassonator]

That last pic...isnt that the Staniford-Morton Lab........

[Rodney]

Final count of registered participants of this cleanup is 264! Quite a few people didn't register (Nina and I didn't) because the line-up was too long and we were not that interested in winning draw prizes.

I knew the paparazzi were at work when I pulled into the parking lot!