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Friends of Accotink Creek Participates in
18th Annual Alice Fergusion Foundation Cleanup
April 8, 2006
Friends of Accotink Creek and Northern Virginia Trout Unlimited braved a rainy morning. Thanks to all for participating with the Friends of Accotink Creek in the 18th Annual Alice Ferguson Foundation Potomac Watershed cleanup. In spite of the foul weather, near the Audrey Moore RECenter at Wakefield Park we removed 66 bags of trash and near Old Lee Highway we removed 17 bags of trash.. The total haul included three bottles of toxic motor oil, nine tires and many beer bottles.

Friends of Accotink Creek cleanup on Accotink Creek in the area from Lee Highway to Old Lee Highway; shown are a few of the 17 trash bags collected by Philip Latasa, Dick Nemeth and not shown in the picture, Jack Buckley.

A Member of Friends of Accotink creek dressed well for the rain, picking up trash along a storm drainage ditch at Wakefield Park entrance.

Trash gathered from a storm drain outlet across street from Ravensworth Shopping Center near Braddock Road. The two motor oil bottles were full of used motor oil.

Storm drain cross street from Ravensworth Shopping Center is eroding a big ditch that leads to Accotink Creek.

Storm drain ditch undercut a huge tree that is about to fall with fresh trash that just came out of a storm drain.

Blooming Virginia Bluebells along the Cross county Trail added beauty to the rainy day.