09/18/2025
Millard-Piercy Watershed Stewards 2025 Winner of Keeping It Living Award
Each year, The Comox Valley Project Watershed Society selects a local environmental group for the Keeping It Living Award. The award recognizes organizations and individuals in the Comox Valley for their significant contributions to the restoration and protection of the K’omoks Estuary and its watersheds. The award celebrates exemplary dedication to the watershed’s environmental health.
This year, Millard-Piercy Watershed Stewards was honored to receive the award. Project Watershed recognized our long-term commitment to the Millard-Piercy watershed, recent work on the toxic tire chemical, 6ppd-Q, initiating installation of a fish ladder at a hanging culvert on Piercy Creek at Arden Road and involvement with the Community Water Managing Initiative. These activities contribute greatly to the long-term health of the K’omoks Estuary as it is one of the major systems draining into it.
The award reflects the efforts of our many dedicated volunteers for all the work you have done over the years to enhance the fish and other aquatic inhabitants of the watershed.
The award was presented to MPWS at a dinner at 40 Knots Winery on September 13. Our Vice President, Helmut Novak, along with his wife, Lori, attended the dinner to accept the award on behalf of MPWS. A painting of the estuary by noted local artist, Bev Beverley, is presented to the recipient to be displayed for one year, in recognition of the award. (see attachment)
This is the second time that MPWS has received the Keeping It Living Award, the first being in 2018.
Robin Harrison
Past President, MPWS
Helmut Novak, Vice-President, being presented with the award.
