Annual Blair - Fenwick - Silver Sparing Tributary Cleanup

Join us in our annual clean up at the Blair - Silver Spring - Fenwick tributaries to Rock Creek. We start across the street from 1755 North Portal Drive, on East Beach Drive, NW. This site is very accessible and supervised children and teens are welcomed. Earn community service hours. Bring your gloves. Wear long sleeves or bring a jacket. Wear sturdy shoes. Rain or shine. 

This effort is part of the Friends of Rock Creek’s Environment’s (FORCE) Rock Creek EXTREME and the Alice Ferguson Foundation’s Annual Potomac River Watershed cleanups to improve the heath and beauty of the Rock Creek and the Potomac River watersheds.

The Fenwick – Blair/Portal Tributary consists of several underground and aboveground streams that drain 1200 acres in the District of Columbia, Silver Spring, and Chevy Chase. This stream is significant for the direct impact that it has on Rock Creek, the Potomac, and the Chesapeake Bay. The two largest aboveground streams run between North Portal & Portal drives and East Beach & West Beach drives near East-West Highway, 16th Street, and Rock Creek Park. The fabled Silver Spring is part of this system of streams. The confluence with Rock Creek is at Beach Drive and West Beach Drive, NW.