Help clean up Americana Drive
Volunteers are invited to join the next Americana Drive Cleanup event on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Participants should meet at the corner of Americana Drive and Patriot Drive in Annandale. Signing up in advance will help the organizers make sure there are enough supplies.
Friends of Accotink Creek adopted Americana Drive through the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Adopt-a-Highway program. As a result, VDOT will provide electronic boards and supplies for the Nov. 11 cleanup.
The Fairfax County Department of Public Works and Environmental Services will provide assistance through Operation Stream Shield, which provides temporary jobs to residents of homeless shelters. DPWES will also pick up all the trash bags and construction materials at the end of the cleanup event.
Staff from Supervisor James Walkinshaw’s office will reach out to various county agencies to ensure the event goes smoothly. The Vistas of Annandale will offer their business office restrooms to volunteers, and FACETS will help with distributing supplies and posting signs along the 1.5-mile cleanup location.
Americana Drive cleanups are scheduled twice a year, on Veteran’s Day and President’s Day. That’s because all the litter and construction debris lining the road gets hidden by the understory in spring and summer.
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Should we not be addressing the problem of illegal dumping? I applaud the volunteers for cleaning up the mess twice a year, but how long should they be expected to do this.
Concerned Citizen, This is very true. The deeper aim of our biannual cleanups is to raise awareness among the neighbors of Americana Drive and thereby convince the irresponsible few to show consideration for others and pride in their community by ‘cleaning up’ their thoughtless actions.
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