2016 Little Hunting Creak Cleanup Saturday

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA -- Senator Scott Surovell and Delegate Paul Krizek are sponsoring their 2016 Little Hunting Creek Cleanup event Saturday, according to a news release from organizers. Here's more about the cleanup, from the news release:

Little Hunting Creek is one of the most severely degraded streams in Fairfax County. In 2007, it was named “Fairfax County’s Trashiest Stream” by Fairfax County who spent over $50,000 of taxpayer funds removing trash. The area is impacted by substandard stormwater system, a significant retail presence, a large concentration of apartments with trash containment problems, and a large homeless population, which results in significant, litter dispersal throughout the watershed.

All volunteers should RSVP and should sign-up to volunteer and to pick a location (see below) by going to:

bit.ly/2016creekcleanup

or

www.scottsurovell.org

Over the last seven years, Senator Surovell, Delegate Krizek, Friends of Little Hunting Creek and their volunteers have removed over 186 shopping carts, over 450 bags of trash, over a dozen bikes, over 50 tires, multiples car seats and one .22 caliber-hunting rifle. Additionally, volunteers helped dispose of one bathtub, one bounce house, one lawn chair, and numerous liquor and beer cans. An extensive cleanup such as this would not be possible without the help of the Mount Vernon community who took time from their schedules to help improve the local environment.

This year, volunteers will spend the entire day removing trash, litter, and debris from three sites in the uppermost watershed of the creek where it originates in Hybla Valley including portions never previously addressed. Pizza and water will be provided to all volunteers.

There are many reasons to volunteer:

• Gain high school and middle school community service hours
  
• Gain education about local ecosystem shortcomings and impairments
  
• Raise community awareness of volunteerism and environmental protection with children
  
• Make your community a better place

Event Details
2016 Little Hunting Creek Cleanup
Saturday, April 9th
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The cleanup will be staged from three separate locations.

- Creekside Village Apartments:
Take Route 1 S from Alexandria. Turn right on Buckman Rd and right again on Janna Lee Ave. Follow Janna Lee Ave. all the way to the end, through Creekside Village Apts., until it dead ends in a parking lot.
GPS Coordinates: 38.746205, -77.094823

- Janna Lee Avenue Little Hunting Creek Bridge:
From Route 1 (at the intersection with Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy), turn west onto Buckman Rd, right on Janna Lee Ave., to the bridge over Little Hunting Creek.
GPS Coordinates: 38.741070, -77.095512

- Mount Vernon Shopping Plaza Near Duron Paint:
From Route 1, turn N on Fordson Rd, the cleanup site is in the concrete channel adjacent to a Duron store in the NE corner of Mount Vernon Plaza. Enter from Fordson Rd., directly across from Mamma’s Kitchen (7601 Fordson Rd.)
GPS Coordinates: 38.749711, -77.089303