2023 – 2025 Outreach Campaigns
The Society remains active in its Outreach and Education Campaign successfully delivering outreach and activities, attending community events, and advancing projects to advance watershed health. To view some of our recent projects:
- Respectful Recreation – General Pamphlet
- Respectful Recreation With Dogs
- Rain Garden Report
- 2025 Outreach Highlights
- 2024 Outreach Highlights
2022 Outreach Campaign
Our 2022 community Outreach and Education Campaign successfully returned to our pre-pandemic outreach and activities schedule to provide a range of community displays and education opportunities for watershed residents and visitors to learn more about the Roundtable and its work to implement the Lower Coquitlam River Watershed Plan.
Thanks to funding from our 2022 funding and project partners, the Roundtable participated in four community events in the cities of Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam. Volunteers provided information displays, interactive activities and informational materials at the City of Coquitlam’s Lafarge Lake Canada Day and Communities in Bloom events, Hoy-Scott Watershed Society/City of Coquitlam’s Salmon Come Home, and the City of Port Coquitlam’s Rivers and Trails Festival. The Roundtable also hosted a volunteer Coquitlam River stream side clean up event with Chandros Development staff, and its first public community Roundtable event during the fall.
The Roundtable was also supported by a Government Canada to hire a summer student to further our ongoing education and outreach videography series that focused on the impacts of littering and invasive species to fish and wildlife. Check out our collection of videos.
For a complete list of Roundtable activities, events and projects and their details, check out: Roundtable Event and Project Update Summary.
2018-2019 Outreach Campaign
Our 2018-2019 Public Outreach Campaign was a huge success!
 River and Trails Festival |
 Maple Creek Invasive Pull |
 Sizdah Be-dar Nature Day Festival |
Thanks to funding from the Vancity EnviroFund and Metro Vancouver, the Coquitlam River Watershed Roundtable helped make a difference in the community through its ‘Plant-Wise’ and ‘Water-Wise’ educational outreach programs. The campaign was designed to build awareness around the issues of invasive plant species and water conservation, and inspired volunteerism and engagement in the importance of watershed health. We are proud to announce that 108 new volunteers signed up and 40 ‘Water-Wise’ surveys and 31 ‘Plant-Wise’ surveys were completed over the season (click the survey name to see the results)! The programs enabled strategic support in the form of partnerships with streamkeepers, community volunteers and municipal parks departments. They also brought various sectors together, including two local non-profits, municipal, regional, federal and First Nations staff and community, and received enthusiastic response from local area Vancity branch offices, fostering the sharing of experiences, expertise and passion for protecting watershed health, creating new friendships in the process.
The grants awarded to the Coquitlam River Watershed Roundtable were instrumental in providing the needed support to help leverage funds with other partners over recent years, which provided the needed momentum towards building a strong and sustainably- funded Roundtable organization with a collective watershed voice from a diverse representation of sectors.
Healthy watershed – healthy people!
For a complete list of events and and their details see our Event Summary Table.
Check out pictures from this year’s campaign here.