Furniture found dumped in the Chilliwack backcountry where a prior cleanup occurred just 2 months ago

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Assuming he used his own pickup truck and dump trailer, Aikenhead said, “It would take me six or seven trips because there’s 11 couches and loveseats up there, plus a bunch of pallets and other garbage.”

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Aikenhead said he has contacted a local conservation officer about the illegal dump.

As Fraser Valley Today has written in the past, it’s not clear why unpaid volunteers are tasked with mitigating illegal dumps and the effects of homeless camps, something government could be doing. There is provincial funding allocated to cover some of the cleanup costs associated with dumping fees, but unpaid volunteers are usually the ones getting the job done.

Aikenhead said he contacted the Report All Poachers and Polluters hotline for seven years and got little to no response about illegal dumps and the effects from homeless camps in the greater Chilliwack area.

People in a Chilliwack-area Facebook group have been trying to figure out who might have dumped the couches by suggesting people peel back the upholstery for any possible identifying information. Aikenhead cautioned against trying to assign blame to anyone at this point.

“And if you did find any information in one of them, that wouldn’t matter because things like that don’t stand up in court. And I’m pretty sure the rest of them didn’t come from the same place,” he said.

He says the area of this dump had just been cleaned up literally two months ago during a spring cleanup in April.

“There was a lot of little stuff and nails, and a burnt 18-foot fiberglass boat with the V6 inboard engine in it,” Aikenhead said.

An 18-foot fibreglass boat was located burnt in the Chilliwack backcountry in April 2026. Ross Aikenhead (left) is pictured with a fellow cleanup volunteer.

He says a local stakeholder group tasked with addressing homeless encampments in the Chilliwack backcountry has been notified about the illegal dump, though it’s not clear what role they might pursue, since they do not release regular updates to the public about their ongoing activities.