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Friends of Accotink Creek
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Thanks to all the Friends of Accotink Creek who joined the Potomac Watershed Cleanup along our 13 adopted stretches of Accotink Creek in 2009. Thanks to all their efforts, we together removed 237 bags of trash, 13 tires, and junk ranging from a vacuum cleaner to an electric hedge trimmer.
Plan now to volunteer again with others to preserve our oceans and waterways or coordinate one of our cleanup sites in March, April, & May, 2010! And don't miss the Intenational Coastal Cleanup in September & October, 2009!
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Sharon Bulova, Chair of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, joined Accotink creek cleanups at Barkley Dr and Prosperity Ave.
Thank you, Supervisor! 
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The volunteers of Solutions for Information Design pose with their booty by Accotink Creek at Little River Turnpike. Thank you, SID!
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Trash in our streams is fed mainly by litter running off streets and parking lots, into storm drains. Friends of Accotink Creek conducts public education and storm drain marking events to address this chronic problem at the source. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learn about storm drain filters as a part of the solution to keeping trash from reaching our waterways: National Inlet & Trident
Remember to remind your groups of the importance of proper cleanup during and after all outdoor activities. Reduce, Recycle, Reuse! In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle |
Among the unusual items Accotink Creek yielded this spring was this mail cart removed at Fullerton Road.
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The volunteers of our Accotink Creek cleanup at Woodburn Road. Thank you volunteers!.
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Despite all the wonderful volunteers who have turned out to help, we are still outnumbered by the litterbugs. Your club, school, business, or other group is welcome to join Friends of Accotink Creek in next year's Potomac Watershed Cleanup in April & May, 2010 and the International Coastal Cleanup in September & October,2009! Volunteer site leaders and coordinators are needed!
Follow the Friends of Accotink Creek motto and "Find just one other person who cares". Contact us, E-mail.
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Trash accumulated behind a logjam in Accotink Creek above Woodburn Road.
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Balancing on logs to reach trash trapped in deep water. Erosion from excess storm drain runoff brings down many streamside trees.
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Lake Braddock Secondary School Key Club joined the cleanup at Fullerton Road again this year.
Thank you Key Club! 
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Accotink Creek's most neglected and least popular cleanup site, at Telegraph Road, was fortunate to have a few brave and hard working volunteers this time! Thank you volunteers!
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Thanks also to the Annandale High School Environmental Club for removing 48 bags of trash and several shopping cats from a particularly difficult site in Manassas Gap Railroad Park, with help from Mclean High School Environmental Club. Thanks also to volunteers from Fort Belvoir who removed over 150 bags of trash and 54 tires from Accotink Bay. Thanks also to the neighbors of Calamo Branch for cleaning this tributary of Accotink Creek. Thanks also to the neighbors of Hunters Branch for cleaning this tributary of Accotink Creek Since 1989, the Alice Ferguson Foundation has spearheaded the Potomac Watershed Cleanup. Now the largest regional event of its kind, the cleanup has engaged over 40,000 volunteers and 300 partners and removed more than 1500 tons of trash from the Potomac Watershed.
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Thank you, volunteers, for cleaning our home.
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Thankssss, volunteerssss!
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Join Friends of Accotink Creek in next year's Potomac Watershed Cleanup in April & May, 2010 and the International Coastal Cleanup in September & October,2009! Contact us, E-mail.
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