Want a Project?

There are plenty of clean-up and reclamation projects left in the Little Rocky Run watershed.  If you would like to organize a group to take on any of the following, please let us know. Cleaning up the watershed and making it look nice is a critical part of the reclamation process.  It is a proven fact that if the watershed looks nice, people will take better care of it and are less likely to vandalize it further. There are some big clean-up projects you can tackle which are detailed further down the page.  But you can help a lot if you will pitch in and do smaller projects.  For example, feel free to pick up trash along Little Rocky Run.  Get in the habit of taking a bag with you and take out a little bit of trash every time you take a walk in the watershed.

And please pick up after your dog.  And when you do please do not toss the dooty bag into the woods or down a storm drain.  Put the waste in your trash or flush it down your commode.  (Photo at left of a dooty bag tossed into the woods is how NOT to dispose of dog poop)

Want a really important job monitoring the water quality of Little Rocky Run or maybe another creek in Fairfax County?  Contact the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District and sign up for their Volunteer Stream Monitoring program.  And/or you can contact the Audubon Naturalist Society and sign up for their monitoring program.

Want a big job?  The seven pipes below are the single biggest eyesore south of U. S. 29.  Each is 8 feet long and 48 inches in diameter.  Note the red stripe on the pipe at the left, which is actually a 3' yardstick.  It will take heavy equipment to get these pipes out.  They are located below the Dominion Power substation on Bay Valley Lane. Absolutely no one will own up to putting these pipes in Little Rocky Run, although they were probably put there "temporarily" while the Little Rocky Run subdivision was being built.  Regardless, it is left to us volunteers to get them out.  Anyone who wants to take this project on will be fully supported by Friends of Little Rocky Run. Note: the stream bank will need some work when these pipes are finally taken out. We figure this job will cost about $3,000.00, so if you know where we can find some money, let us know.  DONE 8/8/2007.

There is also a huge metal pipe not far from New Braddock Road.  If you would like to remove it, Friends of Little Rocky Run will provide a guide to lead you to it and help you haul it out (you provide the truck).  DONE 5/19/2007. There are also a couple of piles of asphalt roofing shingles that need to be carted away.  This job would require little more than shovels, trash bags, and a trip to the dump.  Friends of Little Rocky Run will provide the bags and pay reasonable dump fees if you will haul the shingles away.

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