The Rideau Roundtable is an incorporated not-for-profit association of individuals, community organizations and government agencies working together to keep the Rideau and Cataraqui Watersheds from Ottawa to Kingston healthy: socially, economically and environmentally.

Our Goals

• Improve communication and increase cooperation between government agencies, municipal governments, community organizations and individuals working on watershed stewardship issues.
• Coordinate and lead projects to protect surface and ground water quality and quantity, improve habitat for a diversity of land and water-based species, and conserve native biodiversity.
• Increase landowner and public awareness of watershed stewardship issues, and support individuals and organizations to take action.
• Conduct research on the Rideau and Cataraqui watersheds, and disseminate this information widely.

How We Got Started

The Roundtable grew out of a two-year study of the Rideau River conducted by the Canadian Museum of Nature in collaboration with communities along the river in 1998-2000. Seed money was provided by the Canadian Museum of Nature and the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority. Since then funding has been raised from several sources including the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Environment Canada and HRSDC.