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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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Get your brain wet and your hands dirty! Join Friends of Accotink Creek to get the trash out during the International Coastal Cleanup along our 12 adopted stretches of Accotink Creek. Beat the litterbugs!
Posted August 14, 2026 |
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★ Veterans Day ★
Get tired and dirty while joining neighbors clearing away illegal dumping debris along Americana Drive in Annandale. - Posted August 14, 2026 |
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New and better studies are underway, but funding has been withdrawn. Can any viable solution ever be found for the future of Lake Accotink?
- Updated July 5, 2026 |
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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 June 10, 2026 |
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The roller coaster that this project rides is back on top! City Council has voted to cancel the trail to preserve natural habitat. Thank you!
- Updated January 15, 2026 |
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★Contact your legislators now!★ Ask your Virginia senators and delegates to vote in defense of Accotink Creek! - Posted December 29, 2025 |
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 The 2026 election season started early with special elections for Virginia Delegate in the VA 11 & VA 17 Districts. - Posted February 6, 2026 |
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The City of Fairfax commends FACC for 20 years of dedication to our watershed.
- Posted December 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 February 14, 2026 |
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Another plan to pave the woods in the name of supposed 'environmental' benefits.
- Updated November 19, 2025 |
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Misguided plans to build on a lot 100% in floodplain and Resource Protection Area.
- Updated November 26, 2025 |
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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 May 7, 2026 |
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Ad hoc fixes have been replaced with a promising permanent solution. The seven-year ordeal of this pool seems at last to be over.
- Updated February 19, 2026 |
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Plans to expand sewer capacity promise devastation to the Hunters Branch tributary.
- Updated April 9, 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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A memorial tribute to our former Primary Conservator.
- Posted January 9, 2025 |
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Winter salt hurts Accotink Creek. Citizen science documents the impact. Learn what can be done.
- Posted January 24, 2026 |
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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."
