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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 2010. Thanks to all their efforts, we together removed 218 bags of trash, 22 tires, and junk ranging from a blender to a live animal trap.
Plan now to volunteer again with others to preserve our oceans and waterways or coordinate one of our cleanup sites in April, & May, 2011! And don't miss the Intenational Coastal Cleanup in September & October, 2010!
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Steve Hazard, Salisbury University Environmental Studies major, conducted a one-man cleanup along Accotink Creek between Prosperity Ave and King Arthur Road.
Thank you, Steve! 
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Messages on responsible plastic bag disposal from Giant Foods in the Accotink Creek watershed.
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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 |
Thank you, volunteers, for cleaning our home.
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The volunteers of Dominion Sisterhood Juniorettes at our Accotink Creek cleanup at Braddock 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, 2011 and the International Coastal Cleanup in September & October,2010! 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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The volunteers of Northern Virginia Jack and Jill remove trash accumulated behind a logjam in Accotink Creek above Pickett Road. Thank you, Jack and Jill!
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Balancing on logs to reach trash trapped in deep water. Erosion from excess storm drain runoff brings down many of our streamside trees.
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Among the unusual items Accotink Creek yielded this spring was this rolling trash bin removed at Little River Turnpike
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Accotink Creek's most neglected and least popular cleanup site, at Telegraph Road, was braved by the scouts of Troop 3504! Thank you scouts!
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The impressive handiwork of an unusually ambitious beaver living along Accotink Creek near Barkley Drive.
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On Saturday, April 24th the Friends of Accotink Creek held a booth at
the Northern Virginia Community College Earth Day celebration in conjunction with our cleanups that day. NVCC is
located in the Accotink watershed with the creek only a few blocks
away from the school so the celebration was quite fitting! The Friends
helped to spread the mission of Friends of Accotink Creek with
educational materials made even more fun by exhibitors wearing hats in
the shapes of a frog, turtle and fish!
The Earth Day celebration with Friends of Accotink Creek included information on the macroinvertebrates that signify healthy water, examples of native plants, recycling, clean energy, freshwater mussels, and most important how to get involved as a volunteer with Friends of Accotink Creek! |
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Thanks also to the NOVA Recreation and Park Society for joining our cleanup at Little River Turnpike. Thanks also to The North Face Tysons Store volunteers who joined our Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax Blvd, Woodburn Road, and Little River Turnpike cleanups. Thanks also to the Genzyme Corp volunteers who joined with Friends of Accotink Creek at our Woodburn Road cleanup site. 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. Thanks also to Scout Troop 1523 for cleaning the Long Branch 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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Eagle Scout candidate Luke Le Van organized a cleanup project along Accotink Creek near Telegraph Road. Thank you, Luke and congratualtions on making Eagle rank!
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The appalling amount of trash removed from Accotink Creek near Telegraph Road by Eagle Scout candidate Luke Le Van and his volunteer crew, but there's plenty left!
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Join Friends of Accotink Creek in next year's Potomac Watershed Cleanup in April & May, 2011 and the International Coastal Cleanup in September & October,2010! Contact us, E-mail.
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