Having become flooded soon after work began, the site spent months alternately as a swamp or a skating rink while work was halted. Irony of ironies, this predictable condition diverted most CCT traffic onto the existing paved driveway which Friends of Accotink Creek had advocated as a cost-free no-impact alternative to trail paving at this spot.

So another bit of green in the Accotink Creek watershed has slipped sadly under the ever-spreading asphalt, never to be seen again. Is this still what we call "progress"? The site now awaits the hand of Stormwater Planning Division to install the adjacent wetland meadow watershed project they propose for this location, perhaps this spring. - February 5, 2014