Hesquiaht Peninsula Shoreline Clean up

As part of the Clean Coast Clean Water (CCCW) initiative, RCRS planned and executed was awarded $252,000 in funding as part of the Clean Coast Clean Water (CCCW) initiative put forward by the government of BC to perform shoreline marine debris cleanups in the Hesquiaht Peninsula area in the summer of 2021.

As part of the Clean Coast Clean Water (CCCW) initiative, RCRS partnered with Hesquiaht First Nation, Coastal Restoration Society and Surfrider Pacific Rim in the first-ever large-scale shoreline clean-up effort on Hesquiaht Peninsula. We collaboratively removed close to 32,000kgs of hazardous marine debris from this remote and sensitive habitat.

Hesquiaht First Nation welcomed our crews into their territory to work with community members for 13 days of heli-dropped remote camping and beach cleaning. 

Caches were collected via helicopter, dropped onto the waiting barge and transported to Tofino where the debris was transported to an industrial yard to be weighed and sorted then sent to the Ocean Legacy Foundation’s recycling facility, be repurposed or sent to landfill. Close to 85% of all debris was to be recycled or repurposed.