Mt Vernon, Virginia – Senator Scott Surovell and Delegate Paul Krizek are partnering with the Friends of Little Hunting Creek to sponsor the annual 2019 Little Hunting Creek Cleanup event on Saturday, May 11, 2019.
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 a 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.
Over the last nine years, Senator Surovell and Friends of Little Hunting Creek and their volunteers have removed over 200 shopping carts, over 500 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 large metal jungle gym, one bathtub, one bounce house, one lawn chair, and numerous liquor and beer cans. An extensive cleanup such as this is not possible without the help of the Mount Vernon community who take time from their schedules to help improve the local environment.
Volunteers will spend the day removing trash, litter, and debris from two sites in the uppermost watershed of the creek where it originates in Hybla Valley. Pizza, water, trash bags, and cleaning supplies 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
2019 Little Hunting Creek Cleanup
Saturday, May 11, 2019
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
RSVP at http://bit.ly/CreekCleanup2019
The cleanup will be staged from two locations:
– Janna
Lee Avenue Little Hunting Creek Bridge:
From Route 1 (at the intersection with Mount Vernon Memorial Highway),
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
If you can attend, please RSVP at http://bit.ly/CreekCleanup2019 to ensure that enough clean up supplies and food are provided.
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