We’re celebrating 10 years of the Fairfax County Spring Watershed Cleanup in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and Fairfax County Park Authority!
There is no better way to celebrate Earth Month than to join your community and neighbors to remove trash from your local waterways. Be part of the solution—you’ve removed nearly 30 tons of trash over the last decade through this spring cleanup, and you can help us make a bigger impact.
This spring cleaning event will remove tires, plastic bottles, cans and other debris from local waterways, preventing trash from reaching the nation's largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay.
Volunteer opportunities are available across several Fairfax County park locations, and cleanup dates are from March to May. Click on each option to register.
Saturday, March 15
- Cub Run Rec Center — 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, March 22
- Ellanor C. Lawrence Park — 8:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, March 23
- Sully Historic Site — 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 5
- Roundtree Park — 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Lake Accotink Park — 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Ossian Hall Park — 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 19
- Merrybrook Run Stream Valley Park — 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
- John Byers Park— 9:00 - 11:00 a.m
- Cub Run Stream Valley Park (Flint Lee Road)— 9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Saturday, May 3
- Lake Fairfax Park— 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 10
- Franconia Rec Center — 9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
For questions or additional information, please contact Jen Dalke, volunteer program manager, at jdalke@tnc.org or 540-335-1302 (cell, text available).
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This will be the Virginia chapter's 10th year of partnering with Fairfax County Park Authority to host a Chesapeake Bay watershed cleanup since 2016 (minus 2020 due to COVID-19).
Over the past nine years, 4,179 volunteers cleaned more than 150 miles of stream, shoreline and trails, removing 29.1 tons of trash from more than 25 locations, giving 9,763 hours of service.
The most common items found during our cleanups include plastic bottles and bags, cans, cigarette butts, styrofoam and glass bottles.
While the numbers are impressive, it’s the stories that make this effort successful, too. Many volunteers express how the cleanup impacted their children and how it “opened their eyes” to some of the environmental challenges we face. We also get a lot of people asking how they can continue to make a difference.
For questions or additional information, please contact Jen Dalke, volunteer program manager, at jdalke@tnc.org or 540-335-1302 (cell, text available).