Chesapeake Bay Watershed LbNA #69030
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Add Location| Owner: | fern
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| Plant date: | Aug 23, 2015 |
| Location: | Fairfax Cross County Connecter Trail |
| City: | Fairfax |
| County: | Fairfax |
| State: | Virginia |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Super Rod |
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| Last found: | Sep 8, 2015 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | Oct 17, 2015 |
Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Chesapeake Bay Watershed
You should begin your quest at the Cross County Connector trailhead at Hooes road and the Fairfax County Parkway, there is a small gravel, parking lot, Begin your walk at the trail sign post, walk away from the noisy Fairfax Parkway,
As you walk along the Cross County Connecter trail, you will see on your right a lovely stream, this is the Accotink Creek. It originates upstream at the dam which holds Lake Accotink, in the park with the same name.
This lovely creek is part of a large system of streams and creeks which flow into the Potomac River, one of many rivers that make up what is known as the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
The Chesapeake Bay is an ESTUARY: A body of water where fresh and salt water mix. It is the largest estuary in the United States.
The Bay is about 200 miles long stretching from Havre de Grace, Maryland to Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The Bay receives half of its water volume from the Atlantic Ocean, the rest drains into the bay from an enormous 64,000 square-mile watershed, which includes parts of six states –Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia.
The Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James rivers in Virginia, and the Susquehanna in Pennsylvania are the five largest rivers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, anything that flows into these rivers like storm water runoff from neighborhoods will end up in the Chesapeake Bay. Our sewage treatment plants also deposit cleaned water back into the rivers as well. Did you know the biggest chemical contaminate in the Potomac River is caffeine?
There are so many rivers in Virginia, I like to call it ‘The Land of Rivers’. The real nickname is ‘The Old Dominion’ and our motto is ‘Virginia is for Lovers’. The state song used to be “Oh Shenandoah” but that was retired, and now we have no song.
Continue on the paved path keeping to the right, until you reach the low water stream crossing, there are concrete stepping stones for hikers to cross Stop there. Reverse direction and begin walking the way you came until you see the brown CCC trail marker on your right. It says CCCT 33S, at that location on your left is a concrete Fairfax sewer access topped with a metal plate.
The SEA STAR letterbox is under a small boulder next to the concrete man hole.
Please record your find in the Letterbox web site, and send me an email with any comments.
Hike length: 0.5 miles
Chesapeake Bay Watershed
You should begin your quest at the Cross County Connector trailhead at Hooes road and the Fairfax County Parkway, there is a small gravel, parking lot, Begin your walk at the trail sign post, walk away from the noisy Fairfax Parkway,
As you walk along the Cross County Connecter trail, you will see on your right a lovely stream, this is the Accotink Creek. It originates upstream at the dam which holds Lake Accotink, in the park with the same name.
This lovely creek is part of a large system of streams and creeks which flow into the Potomac River, one of many rivers that make up what is known as the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
The Chesapeake Bay is an ESTUARY: A body of water where fresh and salt water mix. It is the largest estuary in the United States.
The Bay is about 200 miles long stretching from Havre de Grace, Maryland to Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The Bay receives half of its water volume from the Atlantic Ocean, the rest drains into the bay from an enormous 64,000 square-mile watershed, which includes parts of six states –Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia.
The Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James rivers in Virginia, and the Susquehanna in Pennsylvania are the five largest rivers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, anything that flows into these rivers like storm water runoff from neighborhoods will end up in the Chesapeake Bay. Our sewage treatment plants also deposit cleaned water back into the rivers as well. Did you know the biggest chemical contaminate in the Potomac River is caffeine?
There are so many rivers in Virginia, I like to call it ‘The Land of Rivers’. The real nickname is ‘The Old Dominion’ and our motto is ‘Virginia is for Lovers’. The state song used to be “Oh Shenandoah” but that was retired, and now we have no song.
Continue on the paved path keeping to the right, until you reach the low water stream crossing, there are concrete stepping stones for hikers to cross Stop there. Reverse direction and begin walking the way you came until you see the brown CCC trail marker on your right. It says CCCT 33S, at that location on your left is a concrete Fairfax sewer access topped with a metal plate.
The SEA STAR letterbox is under a small boulder next to the concrete man hole.
Please record your find in the Letterbox web site, and send me an email with any comments.
Hike length: 0.5 miles