2012 Potomac Watershed Cleanup Accotink Creek Watershed weekends, March 31 thru April 28 All Friends of Accotink Creek Activities earn student Community Service hours.

GET YOUR BRAIN WET! Join Friends of Accotink Creek in partnership with the Alice Ferguson Foundation to get trash out of our waterways during the 24th Annual Potomac Watershed Cleanup in Fairfax County. New in 2012, the worldwide movement Let's Do It! is focusing attention on illegal dumping sites. Friends of Accotink Creek is tackling some of these eyesores and health hazards in our watershed - strong arms needed! Photo essay on the dumping sites of the "Bumper Dumpers". See WHY WE FIGHT Video and WHY WE MUST CARE Video , then become the solution. How can you help? - Join us at one, two, or as many cleanups as you like. Have friends? - Invite them to join. Spread the word. Your civic association, club, school, business, etc. is welcome to join or share the news in newsletters or websites! Are you a leader? - Take charge of one or more of our cleanup sites, by registering and directing volunteers. We provide supplies for the day of the cleanup, including trash bags, gloves, and sign-in sheets. Volunteer to help clean the Accotink Creek watershed, contact Friends of Accotink Creek. Also, check our calendar March & April . Or, check the Alice Ferguson web site. All Friends of Accotink Creek Activities earn student Community Service hours. March 31 Cleanup Locations: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM     Accotink Creek at Fullerton Road bridge , Directions 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM     Accotink Creek at Franconia-Springfield Parkway bridge , Directions (Including cleanup of Hooes Road dumpsite) 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM     Accotink Creek at Telegraph Road bridge , Directions April 7 Cleanup Locations: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM     Accotink Creek at Fairfax Blvd bridge bridge , Directions 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM     Accotink Creek at Chain Bridge Road , Directions 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM     Accotink Creek at Old Lee Hwy bridge , Directions April 14 Cleanup Locations: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM     Join Lake Accotink Park's spring watershed cleanup day , Directions 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM     Accotink Creek at Braddock Road bridge , Directions April 21 Cleanup Locations: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM     Accotink Creek at Pickett Road bridge , Directions 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM     Accotink Creek at Barkley Dr bridge , Directions 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM     Accotink Creek at Woodburn Road bridge , Directions April 28 EARTH DAY Cleanup Locations: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM     Accotink Creek at King Arthur Road bridge , Directions 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM     Accotink Creek at Little River Tpk bridge , Directions MAP of Cleanup locations Other opportunities to be part of the solution in the Accotink Creek watershed: April 14, 2012 9:00 - 12:00: Bear Branch - South Side Park - Vienna, contact Rick Ayers E-mail April 14, 2012 9:00 - 12:00: Hunters Branch, Fairfax, contact Jack Buckley, E-mail 703-385-4874 April 22, 2012 9:00 - 12:00: Fort Belvoir Accotink Bay contact Kevin Walter US Army 703-805-3969 Combine your cleanup volunteer experience with the Trash-a-Thon and the Potomac River Watershed Cleanup Photo Contest! Three million tons of trash - what the Alice Ferguson Foundation has removed during annual Potomac Watershed Cleanups since 1989. We can't rest now - the litterbugs never rest! Want to stop litter before it starts? Contact your Virginia legislators to support HOUSE BILL NO. 124 putting a 20-cent tax on disposable shopping bags. This makes the third year running similar bills have been tabled in committee without action, but let your legislators know anyway! See how others contributed to last year's cleanup.

When you live underwater, no one can hear you SCREAM!
We must listen for those screams from the water and repeat them LOUDLY!

"...the nation behaves well if it treats the
natural resources as assets which it must
turn over to the next generation increased
and not impaired in value..." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1919

Directions to Accotink Creek Watershed
Fairfax County, VA Cleanup Sites

 Accotink Creek at Barkley Dr: From I-495 take Exit 8 to Arlington Blvd (50) west, go about two miles and turn left on Barkley Drive, take first left onto Karen Drive. Parking on Karen Drive, continue south on Barkley on foot 60 yds to creek. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Braddock Road: From I-495 take Exit 5 onto Braddock Road (620) west, take first right into Wakefield Park (Audrey Moore Rec Center), turn left into ballfield parking lot. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Chain Bridge Rd: From I-66 take Exit 60 onto Chain Bridge Road (123) south, go about one mile and turn left onto Kenmore Drive. Parking on Kenmore Drive. Meet on right side. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Fairfax Blvd: From I-66 take Exit 60 onto Chain Bridge Road (123) south, turn left at 2nd light onto Fairfax Blvd/Lee Hwy (29/50), go about one mile and turn left at Rebel Run into Regency Furniture/P.J. Skidoo parking lot. This is where we will meet. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Franconia - Springfield Parkway: From I-95 take Exit 169 onto Old Keene Mill Road (644) west, go about 1.5 miles and turn left onto Hunter Village Drive. Go about 1 mile. Park on road by Rockledge Ct and meet there. Access is the trail on left down hill to Accotink creek. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Fullerton Road: From I-95 take Exit 167 onto Backlick Road, first right on Fullerton Road. Go about .75 mile, turn left onto Boston Blvd, first left into Costco and left again, passing the front entrance. Parking in far corner of Costco lot by tire shop is where we will meet. Access creek from corner of Costco lot next to tire shop. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at King Arthur Road: From I-495 take Exit 6 to Little River Tpk. (236) west, after first light immediately turn right on King Arthur Road, go about .5 mile to bridge. Park on King Arthur Road and meet near the bridge/ trailhead. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Old Lee Hwy: From I-66 take Exit 62 onto Nutley Street (243) south, at end of Nutley turn right on Arlington Blvd (50), go about .75 miles to Fairfax Circle and turn left on Old Lee Hwy. Parking near bridge, across the street from Arties/Bowl America (near Home Depot lot), is where we meet. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Little River Turnpike: From I-495 take Exit 6 to Little River Tpk. (236) west, take first left at Pineridge Drive, immediately turn left again on Accotink Pkwy to Americana Park on left. Parking in Americana Park near Delayed Harvest Trout Waters sign. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Pickett Rd: From I-495 take Exit 8 to Arlington Blvd (50) west, go about three miles and turn left on Pickett Road, then take first left into Thaiss Park. Meet at CCT trail head Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Prosperity Ave: From I-495 take Exit 8 to Arlington Blvd (50) west, go about 1.5 miles, turn left on Prosperity Ave. (699), go about one mile to Eakin Park on left. Parking in Eakin Park. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Telegraph Road: From I-95 take Exit 166A onto Fairfax county Pkwy (7100) south, go about one mile and turn right on Telegraph Road (611), go about .75 mile and turn right on Telegraph Square Drive and right into parking lot alongside Telegraph Road. Meet at far end of the parking lot nearest to bridge. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Woodburn Rd: From I-495 take Exit 6 to Little River Tpk. (236) west, go about two miles and turn right on Woodburn Road (before Exxon station), bear right past fire station. Continue north on Woodburn. Parking available on Spicewood Dr. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Thaiss Park: from 495 take route 50 (Arlington Blvd.)towards Fairfax. Turn left on Pickett Rd. Turn left into the Pickett Road ball Field (Thaiss Park). Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Accotink Creek at Wakefield Park, Audrey Moore RECenter: Beltway Exit 54A which is Braddock Road west for one quarter mile to the park entrance on the right (opposite Queensberry Ave). Take second left into the ballpark parking lot. Personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions

 Lake Accotink Park: To front entrance- 7500 Accotink Park Road

From I-95

• Take Old Keene Mill Road (VA-644) west one mile
• Right on Hanover Avenue
• Left on Highland Street
• Right on Accotink Park Road
• Park entrance is first left
• Follow park road one mile to parking lot

• Take exit 54B (Braddock Road/East) one mile
• Right on Backlick Road
• Continue one mile to right on Highland Street
• Right on Accotink Park Road
• Park entrance is first left
• Follow park road one mile to parking lot

• Exit at Old Keene Mill Road (VA-644) and continue 5 miles
• Left on Hanover Avenue
• Left on Highland Street
• Right on Accotink Park Road
• Park entrance is first left
• Follow park road one mile to parking lot

• Take exit 54B (Braddock Road/East) 1/2 mile
• Right on Heming Avenue
• Continue 1 1/2 miles to park entrance on right

Lake Accotink personal Google Map Drive/Bike/Transit directions