Sterling Park Project Clean Stream an Outstanding Success

Project Clean Stream is an activity of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.

The local non-profit Sterling Foundation mission is to strengthen the Sterling community by fostering diverse environmental, educational, cultural and recreational opportunities for enhanced quality of life.

The Sterling Foundation is expanding its environmental cleanup efforts with a Project Clean Stream site in 2017. The Foundation is determined to increase their focus from regular Boulevard litter pickups to new target areas like the Cabin Branch tributary that runs under Sterling Boulevard at West Greenthorn Avenue and East Staunton Avenue and eventually flows into the Broad Run.

On Saturday April 29, 2017 Sterling Foundation organized 55 volunteers to remove trash and clean debris from a 2-mile stretch of Cabin Branch creek in Sterling Park. Registered participants included teens from Park View High School's National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta Mathematics Honors Society and other volunteer clubs. Community members with their families joined in as the Foundation took action to improve the Sterling communities own natural surroundings and promote awareness of watershed impacts throughout our region.

The volunteers prestaged the event from Guilford Elementary School, 600 West Poplar Road in Sterling which took place from approximately 9 a.m. thru 4 p.m.

This event was an outstanding success! The following after event information has been recently posted:

• 55 volunteers
  • 17 from Park View High School
  • 13 from Sterling Foundation
  • 14 neighbors, including 8 children
  • 11 from Annapolis-based Johnson Controls
• Cleared 2 miles of stream bed, protecting Broad Run and the Potomac River
• 1,000 pounds of metal
• 55 bags of trash
• 22 bags of recycling ~200 pounds
• Additional miscellaneous solid waste
  • 4 tires
  • 2 TVs
  • Part of a 1960's-plated cargo trailer
  • 1 sectional couch
  • 1 set of household windows
  • 1 mattress
  • 3 car batteries
• We are grateful to all our sponsors and partners
  • Joe's Pizzeria Sterling Park
  • Jordan's Junk Removal Sterling Park
  • Harris Teeter Cascades
  • Safeway Sterling
  • Park Copy General Sterling
  • Allegra Signs Dulles
  • Mom's Organic Market (MOM's) Herndon
  • Park View High School (students and teachers)
    • Campus Program
    • National Honor Society
    • Mu Alpha Theta
  • Keep Loudoun Beautiful and SemperTech
  • Loudoun County Mapping (especially Kristin Brown)
  • Sterling Community Center (Loudoun County Parks and Recreation)
  • The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
    • Dominion
    • Purdue
    • BGE

About Sterling Foundation

Memberships for families, businesses, and civic groups are affordable. Members support hyper-local community action. The non-profit and volunteer efforts clean up and beautify Sterling Park, support recreation and the arts, develop their network of partnerships and make you feel even better about living in Sterling Park. With at least one community event a month, the Foundation brings neighbors together! Lookout for the next Boulevard cleanup, exciting new projects, fundraisers and partnerships with youth groups and business. It is all about living, working and prospering in Sterling! More about the Sterling Foundation: www.sterlingfoundation.org.

About Project Clean Stream

Find out more about Project Clean Stream via the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay:

http://cleanstream.allianceforthebay.org

Every spring, tens of thousands of volunteers come together to pick up trash from local streams, creeks, rivers, parks, and neighborhoods as part of the Alliance’s Project Clean Stream — the largest cleanup event in the Chesapeake Bay region! Cleanups take place across the entire Chesapeake watershed, in all 6 Bay States and DC.

Through Project Clean Stream, the Alliance offers hands-on opportunities for other environmental organizations, local businesses and governments, community groups, houses of worship, schools and universities, and residents to take action to make a true impact and nurture a lasting personal stewardship and commitment to the environment, clean water, and Chesapeake Bay watershed restoration. Through Project Clean Stream cleanups, volunteers have the opportunity to dig, plant, pick-up trash, and discover how their everyday decisions affect the overall health of their local waterways, and the Bay.

The Alliance coordinates local site cleanups, trains site captains, and provides cleanup supplies such as trash bags and gloves.