Volunteer Opportunities

Location: Barrhaven Creek off Baroness Drive 
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City Stream Watch will be conducting a cleanup in Barrhaven Creek next to the stormwater pond. Participants will help to clean up garbage from shorelines of the storm water pond, as well as the creek directly downstream of the storm water pond. 

Meeting location: We will meet in front of the Stormwater Pond off a short path on Baroness Drive at 9 a.m.
What to wear: Dress for the weather! Wear waterproof boots, long socks (if you want to borrow chest waders email us at  with your shoe size ASAP), long pants, and a hat
What to bring: Feel free to bring your own gloves if you have a favorite but we will provide them; please bring your own water bottle
What we will provide: We will have drinking water to replenish empty bottles, some snacks, chest waders (for those who reserve them), garbage bags, and gloves

Have questions? Want to register or reserve chest waders? Email us at 

We are ready to start booking stream monitoring surveys for the month of July! 2022 stream surveys are being done on Sawmill Creek (Ottawa South) and Cardinal Creek (Orleans).

Stream surveys are scheduled with 1 or 2 volunteers and one staff member from our City Stream Watch staff crew. It is best to allow at least three hours to participate in stream surveys, which includes meeting at the site (the meeting site is near the creek), putting equipment on, running through safety procedures, hiking to the creek, and completing a few survey sections.

To see what days are available, please email us at . Let us know if you are interested in full days, mornings, afternoons or evenings. We make our schedule based on what days and times volunteers are available to come out, and we do our very best to accommodate everyone’s preferences and give everyone the chance to come out during the schedule period.  We apologize in advance if we can’t accommodate all volunteer requests!