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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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★ Dec. 9th - Braddock District Supervisor vote ★
Primary election, General election, Special election  for Braddock District Supervisor, General Assembly, Commonwealth-wide offices, And Vienna City Council.
- Updated November 18, 2025 |
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★Join the Wisteria Workdays - October & November!★
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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★ Veterans Day 2025 ★ Join together with neighbors to clean up dumping sites along Americana Drive in Annanadale. Read about our latest Americana cleanups! - Posted July 29, 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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New and better studies are underway, but can any viable solution ever be found for the future of Lake Accotink?
- Updated July 27, 2025 |
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The roller coaster that this project rides plunges to the depths again! City Council has voted to proceed with the trail at the expense of natural habitat.
- Updated June 23, 2025 |
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Ad hoc fixes are collapsing and the mud rolls on. When will it end?
- Updated June 23, 2023 |
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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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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 20, 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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★ Speak up for parks! ★
Fairfax County is targeting the parks budget for disproportionate cuts again. Let your supervisors know we need Nature!. - Posted April 10, 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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Nature Forward's State of the Streams report is a unique snapshot of five streams in our region, including Accotink Creek.
- Posted July 17, 2024 |
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★Contact your legislators now!★ Ask your Virginia senators and delegates to vote in defense of Accotink Creek! - Posted January 15, 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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Read about the adventures of Friends of Accotink Creek in defense of our watershed in 2024. "GET YOUR BRAIN WET!" - Posted December 10, 2024 |
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A pair of water main breaks dump sediment into this Accotink Creek tributary that flows directly int Lake Accotink.
- Posted December 11, 2024 |
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General election for Fairfax City Council, U.S. Senate, and U.S. President.
- Updated November 29, 2024 |
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Fairfax City seeks citizen input on an assessment of Accotink Creek in the City.
- Posted July 17, 2024 |
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Volunteer turtle relocation project before pond dredging project.
- Posted June 26, 2024 |
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Fairfax City's planning document holds significant promise for this section of Accotink Creek.
- Posted June 15, 2024 |
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Another plan to pave the woods in the name of supposed 'environmental' benefits.
- Updated March 30, 2024 |
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Join this coalition to take an active role in ridding our county
of invasive plants and supporting the planting of native species.
- Posted March 5, 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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Winter salt hurts Accotink Creek. Citizen science documents the impact. Learn what can be done.
- Posted January 24, 2024 |
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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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