Say NO to 96 Trucks – New Information Added 3/2/22!!

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New Lake Accotink Dredging Plans will impact YOU and the public comment period ends on March 11!  

Our petition will send your comments DIRECTLY to Supervisor Lusk and the Department of Public Works and Environmental Services.

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SCA MARCH MEMBERSHIP MEETING

March 15, 7:00pm

Topic: Lake Accotink Dredging Project

Charles Smith, Lake Accotink Dredging Project Manager

ZOOM MEETING LINK:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81034461666? pwd=Rk9zYWEzcEszTWxaVWZvQWxKSU90Zz09

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO VIEW A RECORDING OF THE LAKE ACCOTINK DREDGING PROJECT VIRTUAL MEETING: https:publicinput.com/CS1202. The recording starts at 9 min. 30 sec. and runs for about 20 minutes.

FAIRFAX COUNTY’S PROJECTED NUMBER OF DREDGING TRUCK TRIPS

COMPARISON OF THE TWO CURRENT PROPOSED DREDGING TRUCK ROUTES

Southern Drive/Crestwood Option:

Wakefield Park Option:

PRESERVING LAKE ACCOTINK for the LONG TERM

  • The Fairfax County (FC) Taxpayer has determined Lake Accotink (LAP) shall be preserved.
  • At present, Fairfax County’s Department of Public Works and Environmental Services has proposed two options to achieve that end.
  • A comparison of the two options is below:

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Wakefield Park Option

  • Entire project on public land
  • Longer, permanent pipeline installed under Cross County Trail (CCT)
  • After short‐term disruption the CCT would emerge an improved trail for all County residents
  • Seven acres of tree canopy would be cleared for drying of silt
  • Direct and short Ingress/egress routes for dump‐truck traffic to the Beltway (1 stop and 3 traffic lights on Braddock Rd), a total of 0.7 miles
  • Shorter round trip by 10 miles to quarry site
    • 500,000 miles saved over three‐year dredge
  • No truck traffic would impact any residential community thus promoting Public Safety via FC’s “Safe Streets Initiative”
  • Private Property, quality of life protected and respected
  • No business interest would be impacted
  • No residential streets would need to be repaired or repaved because of truck traffic use/damage at taxpayer expense now or in perpetuity

Southern Dr./Crestwood Option

  • Nearly all of the project on private land
  • Shorter permanent pipeline would disrupt LAP’s marina and pavilion areas during installation
  • Private property must be purchased (adjacent to Cox Cable, et )
  • At least five acres of tree canopy would be cleared for drying of silt
  • Indirect and long ingress/egress routes for dump‐truck traffic to the Beltway (3 miles, 3 stop signs and 6 traffic lights)
  • Longer round trip by 10 miles to quarry site
    • 500,000 miles added unnecessarily, compared to shorter mileage Wakefield option
  • FC’s “Safe Streets Initiative” and Springfield’s central business district, a designated Revitalization District, would be eroded by 50,000 dump truck round trips
  • Hundreds of our neighbors’ homes, their safety, and the safety of all who traverse our neighborhood by vehicle, bicycle, or as pedestrians, would be endangered by tens of thousands of truck trips
  • 100,000 trucks, or 50,000 round trips, would travel the Highland, Accotink Park Road and Southern Drive route in three years
    • Using Hanover to avoid Highland and Amherst to access Old Keene Mill a concern
  • 50,000 outbound truck trips would travel Highland, Amherst and Commerce
  • 50,000 return trips would use Edsall and Backlick Road to Highland
  • Residential streets would need to be repaired or repaved at Taxpayer expense during and after initial dredge phase and subsequent dredges in perpetuity