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★ 2005 - 2025 ★
Twenty years of caring for our watershed! - Posted June 17, 2025 |
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★ #SaveCinderBedWoods! ★
Globally Rare/Locally Hidden/Threatened by Pavement - Let's make our streets safe for people before we put more paveent in our forests and floodplains! - Updated July 27, 2025 |
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Get your brain wet and your hands dirty! Join with others to get the trash out of Accotink Creek. Beat the litterbugs! |
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★ Speak up for parks! ★
The Fairfax County parks budget is the perennial target of disproportionate cuts. Let your supervisors know we need Nature!. - Posted March 25, 2026 |
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★ June 6 2026 ★ Join together with neighbors to clean up dumping sites along Americana Drive in Annanadale. Read about our latest Americana cleanups! - Updated February 7, 2025 |
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The roller coaster that this project rides is back on top! City Council has voted to cancel the trail to preserve natural habitat. Thank you!
- Updated January 15, 2026 |
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New and better studies are underway, but funding has been withdrawn. Can any viable solution ever be found for the future of Lake Accotink?
- Updated February 5, 2026 |
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★Contact your legislators now!★ Ask your Virginia senators and delegates to vote in defense of Accotink Creek! - Posted December 29, 2025 |
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 The 2026 election season started early with special elections for Virginia Delegate in the VA 11 & VA 17 Districts. - Posted February 6, 2026 |
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The City of Fairfax commends FACC for 20 years of dedication to our watershed.
- Posted December 12, 2025 |
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Read about the adventures of Friends of Accotink Creek in defense of our watershed in 2024. "GET YOUR BRAIN WET!" - Posted February 14, 2026 |
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Another plan to pave the woods in the name of supposed 'environmental' benefits.
- Updated November 19, 2025 |
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Misguided plans to build on a lot 100% in floodplain and Resource Protection Area.
- Updated November 26, 2025 |
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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 October 12, 2025 |
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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 2024. Thanks to all their efforts, we together removed 198 bags of trash, and junk ranging from a fire extinguisher to an electric rental scooter.
- Posted Oct 12, 2025 |
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Ad hoc fixes are collapsing and the mud rolls on. When will it end?
- Updated June 23, 2025 |
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★ Public Meeting June 2, 2025 ★ "Begin with the premise that the automobile must accommodate the earth, rather than vice versa." - Updated May 21, 2025 |
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Canterbury Woods Elementary School students "follow the water" to learn about what lives in their neighboring stream, Long Branch central.
- Posted May 20, 2025 |
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Plans to expand sewer capacity promise devastation to the Hunters Branch tributary.
- Updated April 9, 2025 |
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Floodplain property along Dogue Creek preserved, in a model for all such properties in all our watersheds.
- Updated April 6, 2025 |
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This tributary stream is the focus of a consolidated long term project to restore watershed health. Learn what is proposed and where changes will happen.
- Updated March 28, 2025 |
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A memorial tribute to our former Primary Conservator.
- Posted January 9, 2025 |
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Constant water main breaks constantly dump layers of choking sediment in our streams.
- Posted January 12, 2025 |
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Winter salt hurts Accotink Creek. Citizen science documents the impact. Learn what can be done.
- Posted January 24, 2026 |
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What is the future of Friends of Accotink Creek? Is it bright new sunrise or dimming sunset?
- Posted January 23, 2020 |
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Saturdays in April & May
Join the campaign to get the trash out of
Accotink Creek!
Join the campaign to get the trash out of
Accotink Creek!
9:00 - 11:00 AM
April 18, 2026
Join your neighbors to support this major tributary of Accotink Creek!
April 18, 2026
Join your neighbors to support this major tributary of Accotink Creek!
June 6, 2026
Join the day of volunteering to clean this community eyesore!
Join the day of volunteering to clean this community eyesore!
March 14, 2026
9:30am - 11:30am
Volunteers assess ecological conditions in streams, based on the abundance of invertebrates.
9:30am - 11:30am
Volunteers assess ecological conditions in streams, based on the abundance of invertebrates.
Property enhancement equals watershed enhancement with Conservation Assistance $$$.
Third Tuesdays
Shape the Future of Friends of Accotink Creek. Join our monthly planning meetings!
Shape the Future of Friends of Accotink Creek. Join our monthly planning meetings!
"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now."
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Search this Web Site
CONTACT Friends of Accotink Creek
with suggestions or questions
Friends of Accotink Creek Brochure
PDF file