★ #SaveCinderBedWoods! ★ Yet another trees-to-asphalt conversion project. This one would light up the forest like an auto mall! - Updated May 2, 2023 |
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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! - Posted March 9, 2024 |
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★ President's Day 2024 ★ Thank you to all the neighbors who joined hands to to clean up dumping sites along Americana Drive in Annandale.
- Posted March3, 2024 |
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The Daventry Homeowners Association in Springfield begins a program of invasive species control on its common property.
- Posted March 4, 2024 |
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Another oil spill at the same spot affected by a 2023 spill.
- Posted January 26, 2024 |
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Another water main break dumps sediment and chlorinated water into an Accotink Creek tributary.
- Posted January 24, 2024 |
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Another plan to pave the woods in the name of supposed 'environmental' benefits.
- Updated December 31, 2023 |
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★Contact your legislators now!★ Ask your Virginia senators and delegates to vote in defense of Accotink Creek! - Posted January 13, 2024 |
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Winter salt hurts Accotink Creek. Citizen science documents the impact. Learn what can be done.
- Posted January 24, 2024 |
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The citizen's Task Force has presented its findings to the Board of Supervisors. But a resolution may still be far from us.
- Updated December 27, 2023 |
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The I-66 project has concluded. We will monitor the growth of the replanted areas and keep watching for any new problem that may crop up.
- Updated December 12, 2023 |
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Another sanitary sewer break contaminates an Accotink Creek tributary.
- Posted November 13, 2023 |
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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 2023. Thanks to all their efforts, we together removed 143 bags of trash, and junk ranging from a Tesla hubcap to a firehose to a hobby horse.
- Posted Oct 16, 2023 |
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Ad hoc fixes have are collapsing and the mud rolls on. When will it end?
- Updated September 25, 2023 |
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"Begin with the premise that the automobile must accommodate the earth, rather than vice versa."
- Updated August 9, 2023 |
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Plans to expand sewer capacity promise devastation to the Hunters Branch tributary.
- Updated July 21, 2023 |
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General election for Supervisors, General Assembly, Vienna Town Council, & Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District Board.
- Updated October 19, 2023 |
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Trading green space for Greenbacks! An ancient perennial stream has met its tragic and needless end in Fairfax City. - Updated May 17, 2023 |
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Many thanks to all the dedicated volunteers who turned out to clean up Accotink Creek during the annual Potomac Watershed Cleanup ! Read the results and see the photos here! Beat the Litterbugs!
- Posted May 24, 2023 |
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Another ancient stream in the northwestern headwaters is in eed of protection.
- Posted May 5, 2023 |
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A video visit to vernal pools around our watershed, looking and learning.
- Updated February 11, 2023 |
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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 February 7, 2023 |
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Read about the adventures of Friends of Accotink Creek in defense of our watershed in 2022. "GET YOUR BRAIN WET!" - Posted November 14, 2022 |
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Another Elly Doyle award for a deserving FACC member.
- Updated November 18, 2022 |
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Citizen report of a sanitary sewer break contaminating Long Branch central.
- Updated November 22, 2022 |
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Results are in from our summer fish survey. The tally of species is at least fair, but questions remain.
- Updated November 15, 2022 |
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Trying to save Lake Accotink from being smothered by an insidious aquatic invader.
- Updated November 7, 2022 |
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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 9, 2023 |
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Another plan to pave the woods in the name of supposed 'environmental' benefits.
- Updated January 22, 2022 |
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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 |
"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now."
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