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Background Information
Press Coverage
CCRIC Photo Album
Indian Creek Watershed Info
Announcements:
Environmental Network:
Check out other groups' events on
Environmental Greenbelt.Org
New:Visit our new watershed neighbors:
Friends of Little Paint Branch
CCRIC is part of the
Anacostia Watershed Network
WSSC initiative:
Can the Grease: don't pour grease down the drain to keep pipes clean and prevent backups.
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Recent events:
March 2009
Our March 14 cleanup was a success limited only by the number of volunteers.
The two of us (Vicky and Lutz) were able to carry out 19 tires, 6 bags of
trash and other items from a 150-yard reach of Indian Creek upstream of
Powder Mill Road.
On April 18 we will continue with the help of volunteers from Konterra.
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April 2009
The 2009 Anacostia Watershed Cleanup on April 18 was very successful with the help from Konterra (Charles Lancaster of Gould Property). 80 volounteers descended onto a 500 yard reach of Indian Creek at Powder Mill Road.
A dumpster provided by Sun Services of Beltsville was filled to the top with 97 bags full of trash, 84 tires, and 42 large items including a wheelchair a steel safe and a child slide. View photos of the event.
| June 2009 |
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8:15 PM |
CCRIC |
Bat Walk at Greenbelt Lake.
Meet at the East entrance of Buddy Attick Park by St. Hugh's Elementry School on Crescent Road.
Sunset is at 8:29 and the first bats will come out soon after that. We will be able to listen to their echolocation calls with a receiver tuned to the bats' frequency range (typically between 20 and 40 kHz).
Rain date/time: Thu. June 11 at 8:20 PM
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| Wed. |
10 |
7:00 PM |
CCRIC |
Annual Meeting at the Greenbelt Community Center, 15 Crescent Road.
Agenda (full PDF version)
7:10 Call to Order
7:15 Speaker: Carter McCamy of Environmental Quality Resources, LLC
Indian Creek Study within the Beltsville Industrial Park
An analysis of the Indian Creek drainage area within the business/industrial area between Muirkirk Industrial Park pond and Powder Mill Road; to identify pollution sources and possible source mitigation, possible stream valley restoration alternatives and cost estimates for the recommendations
7:45 Reports of current Board members and recent activities
8:15 Elections to the Board
8:30 Planned activities
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Organizations mentioned:
AWCAC - Anacostia Watershed Citizens Advisory Committee / Anacostia Watershed Restoration Partnership
AWS - Anacostia Watershed Society
BCWWG - Beaverdam Creek Watershed Watch Group
FoSCr - Friends of Still Creek
Konterra - Konterra Town Center East
MWCOG - Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
Last Update: Feb. 3, 2009 (Lutz Rastätter).
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