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[Bushwacker]

Nostro raised some of the important issues that were not addressed by the various authorities in taking appropriate action to eradicate this annual problem. I live in Chilliwack and have seen this ongoing cesspool of river rats thrashing our lovely environment with no regard to the garbage they leave behind.

This is a social problem that has an enormous impact on the community and our liveability standards.Much thanks to the CVRCC folks for the wonderful work they are doing and in bringing such issues to the forefront and in putting more pressure on City leaders to get off their duffs and taking more pro-active action.

Good work, guys !   

P.S. The City's groundwater aquifer system is located  just a short distance downriver from this polluted campsite. City leaders should take this hint to ban further camping (except supervised areas) alongside the river or at the very least make frequent inspections to make sure our drinking water won't be compromised.

[Coho Cody]

yeah i'd like to know what happened to the people living there .  GREAT JOB GUYS!!!

[BwiBwi]

On Sat during our scouting for fishing spot came across a pile of roof shingles and other debris. Picked up a bag of the roof shingle, 1 mower and half of a a axle (damn heavy). If anyone passing by can pick up a bag of those shingles it would be gone soon. The turn off is not far from a turn off spot where a yellow 2 flag is.

[dennyman]

Hats off to the people that cleaned this illegal camping site from off the river bank. Luckily no one was injured during the cleanup as when you are dealing with filthy and hazardous conditions such as this the potential for a " needle stick" is always there.
And hopefully, this will be a wakeup call to both the police and the local government officials of Chilliwack. With regards to the police, if they now suspect thieves were using this site as a hiding spot, why the heck did they not raid this site months ago, and charge the culprits?  And to City officials there is a homeless problem in Chilliwack, and at the very least serious consideration has to be given to set up some shelters for folks like this, instead of having them camp down the river and live like animals.  As far as where some of these people went  to, my guess is to look under the Vedder Bridge....

[Lew Chater]

Just a follow up! The Vedder is coming up fast, with water brown and bank to bank. We have had a lot of rain out here today and it hasn't stopped yet so the water will continue to rise. The City of Chwk crews were busy with other water problems and were not going to be able to get the garbage out until tomorrow. With the water coming up, they decided to work some overtime and sent a large Cat backhoe and two 14 yard dump trucks to the site. They filled both of the trucks. A big thanks to Heidi our City contact for Environmental issues and the City crews who had other problems to deal with, but got onto this one on quite short notice.

Now we need to have some discussion on enforcing the bylaws to prevent this size of thing from happening again. The CVRCC will be meeting to look at this with City officials. We have good support from both the City and Fraser Valley Regional District on our efforts and the efforts of all the volunteers who help with the cleanups.

Thanks again to Marvin and his buddies who took it upon themselves to do something about this mess and to contact and include members of the CVRCC.

[chris gadsden]

A lot of thanks go to Lew and Terry for giving a good part of their Saturday dealing with this awful assault on our environment. Also let it be known that Lew worked on this file all today and assured this mess was cleaned up before dark this evening.

The plus side is we have got the City's attention on this one and we will be dealing with them and the RCMP at a meeting shortly to make sure things like this do not get to such a point that things like this happen ever again.

This may involve you, the user groups of the river reporting to us when you notice such camps so we can deal with it at our end. Thanks to those that have already told us about a couple including those in the FVRD where no bylaw presently exists to evit illegal camping.

Thanks once again to Lew for all his work today and also to Heidi as well as the crew from the City for their prompt action in dealing with this terrible mess.

WELL DONE ALL. 

[buck]

Chris
     
     While on the subject of camping, I think things are getting out of control around the Tamihi area with all the illegal camping going on along the river. There seems to be this attitude that you can just show up and set up camp where ever you please. The " Curly Fry " set up across the bridge is beginning to look a little shabby and certainly distracts from the fishing experience. Where do these people dispose of their garbage and gray water? The FVRD has to but some teeth into their laws or we will see more of the same thing in the future.
      Good job on the clean-up.

[chris gadsden]

Things were going in this direction with the FVRD and the Province but I just got some info and a document that the Ch-ihl-kway-uhk Tribal Society has got involved on this early this month now so things are stalled at the momement.

One of their 7 suggestions on the memo and a lot of you that read this will like this one, "It was suggested that one solution to the concerns regarding vandalism to the land would be to have a toll booth erected to control access to the Valley which would be run by the First Nations and funded through fee collection."

I will send you the complete document Pete if I have your e-mail addres.

[Rodney]

Article in The Progress:

http://www.theprogress.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=39&cat=23&id=512332&more=