Coquitlam River Cleanup Recap

Yesterday was our much anticipated Riverside Riverdaze Coquitlam river cleanup. We would like to thank everybody who came out and helped clean up such a precious river system. We were overjoyed by the amazing turnout we had, it was by far our largest yet. The river is now noticeably much cleaner due to the efforts of the over 250 hard working volunteers. This event has done a lot to increase the awareness of the issues present in the Coquitlam River ecosystem and will hopefully make some of the local residents more mindful of the river in their backyards. We used over 400 garbage bags and collected approximately 3-4 tonnes of garbage from the river banks. Everything from tires and cast iron stoves to rebar, couches and even a toilet was removed. We would like to thank the Cities of Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam for donating the garbage pickup of all the material collected. Riverside had some great support this year from volunteers, sponsors and the cities of Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam. Thanks very much to : -Jing Niu & Allen Jensen from the City of Port Coquitlam for supplying bags and gloves -Caresse Selk from the City of Coquitlam for supplying bags and gloves - Redl Sports for donating a dragonfly 9ft 5wt fly rod to our prize draw -Echo/Rajeff Sports donated 2 Micro practice casting rods with Spey adaptors to our prize draw -BC Outdoors Magazine for supplying garbage bags and gloves for the clean up as well as some T-shirts hats, A Rapala casting rod and reel, Fillet knife, Ultimate Fly Box fly tying books, and Suffix line. - Shimano Canada for donating T-shirts, Hats stickers and tattoos - Daniel Rivet for donating gloves -Clarissa for the Custom made Fish Pin Our lucky prize winners: Wayne Namana – 8wt Fetha Styx Winelle- Shimano Hat Ted Wingrove- Rapala Casting Rod Kallum Corr-DFW 5 wt Fly Rod Shawn Peter- Rapala Andros Reel Dan Currie –Rapala Filet Knife Kane Beebe- Echo Micro Practice Rod Aidan Campbell – Echo Micro Practice Rod Glen – Shimano shirt Loyd- Shimano hat Stewart – Rapala Hat Jason Ryu – Shimano hat Nana – Shimano Shirt Derek Lowe – B$C outdoors shirt Kathy- BC outdoors hat Nick- Suffix siege line Custom intruder flies- Ray Seymour Andrew Collins- Stillwater selections fly book