Volunteers may find more information and directions at
accotink.org/2021/PotomacWatershedCleanuppre-event2021.htm
Please let us know if you plan to join "Team Accotink". -- GET YOUR BRAIN WET!
Site Type |
Run/Creek/Stream (Active since 2007) |
Location |
County: Fairfax State: Virginia Zip: 22031 Nearest City: Fairfax GPS Coordinates: 38.85964397344, -77.254786491394 |
Directions |
Directions: 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. |
Watershed | Accotink |
Sub Watershed | Accotink Creek |
Facilities |
Parking Capacity: 20 Restrooms are NOT available. This site is suitable for children under seven. This site is suitable for the elderly. This site is suitable for the disabled. |
Notes & Special Issues | |
Map |
Details |
This site is open to the public RSVP Not Required Maximum Volunteers: 50 |
Contact Info. |
Friends of Accotink Creek contact (at) accotink.org
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Website | |
Suggestions |
Volunteers may find more information and directions at |
Cleanup Event
Annual Earth Day Community Cleanup in the Watershed.
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Volunteer with the Anacostia Watershed Society in the area’s premiere annual Earth Day Cleanup. Join over 2,000 AWS volunteers cleaning up our neighborhoods, parks, streams, and the Anacostia River.
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Volunteer with the Anacostia Watershed Society in the area’s premiere annual Earth Day Cleanup. Join over 2,000 AWS volunteers cleaning up our neighborhoods, parks, streams, and the Anacostia River.
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Volunteer with the Anacostia Watershed Society in the area’s premiere annual Earth Day Cleanup. Join over 2,000 AWS volunteers cleaning up our neighborhoods, parks, streams, and the Anacostia River.
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2021/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Volunteer with the Anacostia Watershed Society in the area’s premiere annual Earth Day Cleanup. Join over 2,000 AWS volunteers cleaning up our neighborhoods, parks, streams, and the Anacostia River.
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2020/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
24Apr
Cleanup Event
The Forest Heights cleanup will be Saturday, April 17, 2021 from 9am-12pm. There will not be a weather makeup date. We will be removing trash from select Town roads. Student service hours available. Free refreshments.
17Apr
Cleanup Event
Annual event!
Join us in protecting Difficult Run & its downstream waterways while preserving the beauty of Hunter Mill Road.
www.funinfairfaxva.com/hunter-mill-road/
Exertion: light to moderate, depending on volunteer preference
Time commitment: 1.5 - 3 hours
17Apr
Cleanup Event
The clean up is held at the Fort Washington Lighthouse. Park in the Lighthouse parking lot and walk to the shoreline near the Lighthouse. There is a public restroom in the parking lot.
Wear sturdy shoes as the shoreline is uneven in places with natural debris on the beach.
11Apr
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2021/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2020/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2021/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2021/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2020/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2021/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2021/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Spring cleaning takes on new meaning during this year’s community-wide Green Up Day. Join volunteers as they make a difference throughout the community by cleaning up and beautifying local streams, schools, parks, and homeowner association common areas during Community Green Up Day. The City is looking for volunteers for this event. Students can also earn student service learning credits.
Please wear clothing and footwear that are weather-appropriate and that can get dirty, muddy, or wet. Although the City supplies equipment, volunteers are welcome to bring their own gloves or supplies to the event.
For those interested in earning Student Service Learning (SSL) hours, please sign in when you arrive, and bring all paperwork with you.
11Apr
Cleanup Event
Volunteer with the Anacostia Watershed Society in the area’s premiere annual Earth Day Cleanup. Join over 2,000 AWS volunteers cleaning up our neighborhoods, parks, streams, and the Anacostia River.
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Volunteer with the Anacostia Watershed Society in the area’s premiere annual Earth Day Cleanup. Join over 2,000 AWS volunteers cleaning up our neighborhoods, parks, streams, and the Anacostia River.
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2020/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Annual Earth Day Community Cleanup in the Watershed.
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2020/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2021/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Registration for individuals and groups can be completed on our website: earthday.anacostiaws.org/earthday2021/index.php
Use the map to find your desired site, click on the icon, and choose "Register for this site."
24Apr
24Apr
24Apr
Cleanup Event
The clean up is held at the Fort Washington Lighthouse. Park in the Lighthouse parking lot and walk to the shoreline near the Lighthouse. There is a public restroom in the parking lot.
Wear sturdy shoes as the shoreline is uneven in places with natural debris on the beach.
11Apr
Cleanup Event
Annual Earth Day Community Cleanups within the Watershed
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Annual Earth Day Community Cleanup in the Watershed.
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Annual Earth Day Cleanup in the Watershed
24Apr
24Apr
Cleanup Event
You can make a difference 6 Feet Apart! Help preserve one of our region’s most important natural resources: The Occoquan River ! Make cleaning the river and reducing your single-use plastic waste part of your spring cleaning plans!
Join us at one of these sites on Saturday, April 17th from 9 am-12 pm for FOTO’s Occoquan River Clean Up!
Bull Run Marina
Fountainhead Park
17Apr
24Apr
24Apr
23Apr
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Volunteers may find more information and directions at
accotink.org/2021/PotomacWatershedCleanuppre-event2021.htm
Please let us know if you plan to join "Team Accotink". -- GET YOUR BRAIN WET!
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Volunteers may find more information and directions at
accotink.org/2021/PotomacWatershedCleanuppre-event2021.htm
Please let us know if you plan to join "Team Accotink". -- GET YOUR BRAIN WET!
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Volunteers may find more information and directions at
accotink.org/2021/PotomacWatershedCleanuppre-event2021.htm
Please let us know if you plan to join "Team Accotink". -- GET YOUR BRAIN WET!
17Apr
Cleanup Event
Volunteers may find more information and directions at
accotink.org/2021/PotomacWatershedCleanuppre-event2021.htm
Please let us know if you plan to join "Team Accotink". -- GET YOUR BRAIN WET!
17Apr
Cleanup Event
Volunteers may find more information and directions at
accotink.org/2021/PotomacWatershedCleanuppre-event2021.htm
Please let us know if you plan to join "Team Accotink". -- GET YOUR BRAIN WET!
17Apr
Cleanup Event
Volunteers may find more information and directions at
accotink.org/2021/PotomacWatershedCleanuppre-event2021.htm
Please let us know if you plan to join "Team Accotink". -- GET YOUR BRAIN WET!
01May
Cleanup Event
Volunteers may find more information and directions at
accotink.org/2021/PotomacWatershedCleanuppre-event2021.htm
Please let us know if you plan to join "Team Accotink". -- GET YOUR BRAIN WET!
01May
Cleanup Event
Volunteers may find more information and directions at
accotink.org/2021/PotomacWatershedCleanuppre-event2021.htm
Please let us know if you plan to join "Team Accotink". -- GET YOUR BRAIN WET!
01May
Cleanup Event
EcoAction Arlington volunteers will cleanup the park and Four Mile Run. We will have 3 shifts of 40 people each broken into two groups for social distancing:
9 - 10:15,
10:30 - 11:45, and
12 - 1:15.
24Apr
Cleanup Event
2021 Earth Day Cleanup - Potomac River at National Landing
Let's meet at the Crystal City (National Landing) water park
All cleaning supplies will be provided, including gloves and trash bags
23Apr
23Apr
Cleanup Event
Join Surfrider D.C. and Inland Ocean Coalition D.C. for a Spring cleanup at Theodore Roosevelt Island! We will provide gloves, bags, hand sanitizer, and trash pickers. Please bring a mask and a friend.
Learn more about Surfrider D.C.: dc.surfrider.org
Learn more about Inland Ocean Coalition D.C.: inlandoceancoalition.org/whoweare/chapters/washingtondc/
02May
Cleanup Event
Come help make a difference on Saturday April 17th as a part of the Potomac Watershed Cleanup. Your efforts will help Still Creek, the Anacostia River and the Potomac River watersheds. Volunteers will pick up trash that would have wound up in Still Creek, the Anacostia River and the Potomac River.
Please note that all volunteers will have to park across the street on Walker Drive or Capitol Drive and walk across Greenbelt Road for the volunteer event.
Masks will be required at this event.
17Apr
Cleanup Event
Events happening April 17th - April 25th!
Thanks to a partnership with the Montgomery County Parks Department, FOSC is able to provide gloves and bags for every volunteer. The trash and recycling that volunteers collect are picked up by the Parks Department.
To learn about the next event, check out the FOSC Calendar of Events. If you join Friends of Sligo Creek you will get our newsletter delivered right to your inbox so you have a heads up about upcoming events and articles about past events.
Many people collect trash and recycling between Sweep the Creek events. If you do so, you may put the materials you collect either in the trash cans in the park or dispose of them at home in your regular trash and recycling containers.
The Sweep the Creek program is an initiative of the Litter Committee. While we have a lead for the Sweep itself, the chairperson position for the larger Litter Committee is vacant. Please let us know via litter@FOSC.org if you are interested in this volunteer position or in be...
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25Apr
Cleanup Event
Spring cleaning takes on new meaning during Gaithersburg Green Month. Join volunteers as they make a difference throughout the community by cleaning up and beautifying local streams, schools, parks, and homeowner association common areas during Community Green Up Day. Students can also earn student service learning credits.
Please wear clothing and footwear that are weather-appropriate and that can get dirty, muddy, or wet. Although the City supplies equipment, volunteers are welcome to bring their own gloves or supplies to the event.
For those interested in earning Student Service Learning (SSL) hours, please sign in when you arrive, and bring all paperwork with you.
17Apr
Cleanup Event
Join Potomac Riverkeeper Network to work towards a mission of a Trash-Free Potomac! We will be hosting trash cleanup events in Alexandria every month from April- October 2021.
24Apr
Cleanup Event
Join Northern Va. Ethical Society for an Earth Day Cleanup! Lunch will be provided!
18Apr
23Apr
Cleanup Event
Cleaning up the neighborhood as well as along Lees Corner road & the streams it crosses.
24Apr
22Apr
Cleanup Event
Cleanup the hill under Limnkiln Rd by the bus turnaround North of Mt. Lock (approximately milepost 68). We have done this event in April of 2018 and 2019, but took a covid break in 2020. The county has been gracious enough to haul away whatever we collect. This hill has historically been used as a dumping area (see Mike High's book on the C and O). We collected a dump truck full of tires and another full of other debris in 2018. The quantity of dumping has declined thankfully, but there is still work to do.
17Apr
Cleanup Event
Local Cub Scout Pack 1534 will be supporting the the Alice Ferguson Foundation for the 33rd Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup by picking up trash in Rutherford Park and Long Branch.
25Apr