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★ #SaveCinderBedWoods! ★
Eminent domain hearings for yet another trees-to-asphalt conversion project. This one would light up the forest like an auto mall! - Updated February 22, 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! - Updated March 4, 2025 |
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★ Presidents Day ★
Thank you to all the neighbors who joined hands to to clean up dumping sites along Americana Drive in Annandale. - Updated February 21, 2025 |
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★ ALERT: Contact City Council Now ★
Another plan to pave the woods in the name of supposed 'environmental' benefits. - Updated February 6, 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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Yellow passionflowers and Purple passionflowers - be "passionate" about the imperiled Accotink Gorge. Our workdays to eliminate invasive wisteria threatening native flora make progress!
- Updated November 29, 2024 |
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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 183 bags of trash, and junk ranging from a child’s scooter to a commercial cafeteria soup serving station.
- Posted Oct 19, 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 October 20, 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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Canterbury Woods Elementary School students "follow the water" to learn about what lives in their neighboring stream, Long Branch central.
- Posted April 29, 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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Ad hoc fixes are collapsing and the mud rolls on. When will it end?
- Updated September 25, 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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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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