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Get your brain wet and your hands dirty! Join Friends of Accotink Creek to get the trash out during the Potomac Watershed Cleanup along our 12 adopted stretches of Accotink Creek. Beat the litterbugs!
Read updates from the cleanup in progress. - Updated April 21, 2019 |
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Local elections in 2019 will see much turnover of officeholders. Think of your watershed when you vote. Primary Elections June 11 - General Election Nov. 5
- Posted January 26, 2019 |
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Will Blake Lane Park remain a park or be developed as a school at the loss of open space and wooded habitat?
- Updated April 21, 2019 |
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A case of questionable compromise of principles in Resource Protection Areas. Application has been rejected yet again.
- Updated April 21, 2019 |
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A drainage pipe failure contaminates a vernal pool at Lake Accotink Park.
- Posted March 14, 2019 |
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Another problem at the INOVA campus affects our neighboring watershed.
- Posted March 26, 2019 |
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New studies after last year's public meetings have yielded new information and new perspectives. Expect the Master Plan public meetings on the future of the lake to resume soon.
- Updated March 23, 2019 |
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Neighbors get together to clean up dumping sites along Americana Drive in Annanadale.
- Posted February 21, 2019 |
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High school student inspires volunteer action to better the environment in our watershed..
- Posted February 19, 2019 |
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Small park gets a big restoration of native habitat.
- Posted February 5, 2019 |
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All plastic bag bills again failed to get through the Virginia General Assembly in 2019. Will 2020 be the year? - Updated March 6, 2019 |
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The bulldozers are devastating the trees along I-66. Be on the lookout for erosion and sediment violations!!
- Updated January 27, 2019 |
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Helping the Holmes Run watershed by reporting erosion control failures at a major construction site.
- Updated January 21, 2019 |
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Is this the right land use in the right place?
- Updated January 21, 2019 |
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Wasteland becomes a native meadow - "A happy event that will make the Earth smile" - Posted November 17, 2018 |
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♪ Power to the People, Not this Plastic! ♪ The Trash Action Work Force protests at Nestle USA against the plastic trash poisoning our watersheds! - Posted November 2, 2018 |
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Thanks to all the Friends of Accotink Creek who joined the International Coastal Cleanup along our 12 adopted stretches of Accotink Creek in 2017. Thanks to all their efforts, we together removed 234 bags of trash, 11 tires, and junk ranging from a fire extinguisher to bicycles.
- Posted Oct 15, 2018 |
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Nature continues to reclaim Wakefield Run after its restoration.  Read the background story and follow our periodic updates! - Updated September 27, 2018 |
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An appeal to aid our neighboring watershed to the east.
- Updated October 24, 2018 |
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Young minds apply their hands and hearts to study and preserve our watershed.
- Posted July 22, 2018 |
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Visit the small headwater tributary streams of the Northwast Watershed, many threatened by the I-66 widening project.
- Posted July 5, 2018 |
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Visit Hatmark Branch, a small headwater tributary threatened by the I-66 widening project.
- posted July 5, 2018 |
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An expert evaluation of some of these cradles of amphibian life in Lake Accotink Park
- Posted April 22, 2018 |
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An examination of lingering erosion and landscaping deficiencies from the 495 Express Lanes.
- Updated April 22, 2018 |
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Yellow passionflowers and Purple passionflowers - be "passionate" about the imperiled Accotink Gorge. Our workdays to eliminate invasive wisteria threatening native flora make progress!
- Updated March 31, 2018 |
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♦ The end is in sight! Draft TMDL's released!
Total Maximum Daily Load or Talk Much, Do Little? - Updated June 29, 2017 |
"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now."
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