18th Annual Potomac Watershed Cleanup

Saturday, April 8

Sponsored by the Alice Ferguson Foundation, in coordination with Fairfax County Park Authority.
See www.fergusonfoundation.org/cleanupmainframe.html

Directions to Calamo Branch: From I-95 just outside the Capital Beltway take Rt. 644 W (Old Keene Mill Rd.). At the first light turn left on Spring Rd. Make the 2nd right on Calamo St. We meet at the first corner, Calamo St. and Ridgeway Dr. See MAP.

Lake Accotink Park - 9am-12noon
Springfield - Lee Ann Shenefiel, Tawny Hammond
FCPA- Lake Accotink Park
E-mail
703-569-0285 or 703-569-3464 Can accomodate 200 volunteers.
Site not suitable for elderly or disabled volunteers

Directions to Lake Accotink Park: Beltway exit 54 B (Braddock Road) east 1/2 mile to right at Heming Ave. to rear entrance. Or from I-95 take Old Keene Mill Road west to right on Hanover Ave to left on Highland Ave to right on Accotink Park Road to entrance on left. See MAP.

Long Branch Stream Valley - 9am-12noon
Fairfax - Dan Jackson, Rob Wood
Olde Surrey Men's Club
E-mail
Can accomodate 50 volunteers - Site not suitable for children.

Directions to Long Branch Valley Stream: 495 to Braddock Rd West. Right on Pickett Rd to the bottom of the hill. See MAP.

US Army Garrison - Fort Belvoir - 9am-12noon
Fort Belvoir - Dorothy Keough, Michelle Hayward
Accotink Bay Wildlife Refuge Environmetal Education Center
E-mail
Can accomodate 150-200 volunteers. The site for this year is along McCarty Loop Trail. The access walk is longer and can be muddy.
Please dress for the weather and sturdy boots or shoes that can get muddy.

Directions to US Army Garrison - Fort Belvoir: Directions to center: Take I-95 to the Fort Belvoir/Newington exit onto the Southern leg of the Fairfax County Parkway (Route 7100), continue until the end of Fairfax County Parkway (T-intersection with traffic light) and turn left onto Route 1 (North). Proceed one block to next traffic light turn right onto Pohick Road, which is the Tulley Gate entrance. Once you proceed through check point on Pohick Road continue to first traffic light. Turn right onto Theoto Road. Follow Theote Road to Vet Clinic and turn right at the stop sign, onto Warren Road. Follow Warren Road to the bottom of the hill and turn right onto Swift Road, then right onto Little Road. The ABWR Center is ahead on the right - next to the Archery Range, Building 780. At the Tulley Gate Visitor Center the driver will need to request a day pass to access the post. To obtain an day pass the driver will need to show vehicle registration, proof of insurance and valid driver license. All vistors will need valid picture id to access post. See MAP.

Accotink Creek and Cross County Trail from about a half mile north of Rte 620, Braddock Road, south for at least half a mile in Lake Accotink Park. MAP of meeting place We will go as far south as time permits along the trail and creek, leaving trash bags along the trail, so we can be at the 1:00 p.m. after-cleanup-celebration at the Lake Accotink Park patio near the snack bar for hot dogs, snacks and soft drinks.

We will meet at 8:30 to sign in, briefing at 8:45, at the
Audrey Moore RECenter, 8100 Braddock Road, Annandale, Virginia
(1/4 mile from 495 Braddock Road West Exit (54A) to Wakefield Park, first parking lot on left).
See www.co.fairfax.va.us/parks/rec/wakerec.htm.

After signing in, the briefing and distributing trash bags, we will walk to stream or drive to a cross street nearest Braddock Road Bridge over Accotink Creek.

During and after the cleanup, thoroughly wash your hands before eating! Plan to join us at the after-cleanup-celebration; either continue a pleasant hike along the creek and lake about another mile south, or you can return to your car and drive to the celebration.
MAP of celebration location.

During the 2005 cleanup 5,875 dedicated volunteers removed over 217 tons of trash from 309 cleanup sites in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Washington, DC. There were 87 cleanup sites in Fairfax County. Will you help us do better this year?