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TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (Corrected post)

REMINDER: Calling all Lovers of Nature, Wildflowers, Birds & Critters

Join The Friends of Ten Mile Creek on our Annual Spring Watershed and Wildflower Walk

When: Saturday April 18th, 10am-2pm.

Where: Meet at 10am at the Cinque Farm 22300 Slidell Road, Boyds, MD. From there we will drive to our starting point, the Beck Farm, a mile away.

Trash Clean-up, Saturday March 21st, 11-2 pm

West Old Baltimore Road is our adopted rural rustic road. Let’s clean up the road!
We will meet on West Old Baltimore Road at the Ten Mile Creek Ford at 11:00.
Best to park on the East side of the Creek where more parking is available.
We will provide garbage bags for collecting the trash.
Jay Cinque has offered to load the trash collected into his truck and take it to the dump.
For more information contact John Parrish, lifeonearth@verizon.net

Save the Dates for Some Upcoming Spring Activities

Save the Dates: Friends of Ten Mile Creek & Little Seneca Reservoir Invites You to Montgomery County Executive Candidates Green Forum, Monday evening March 1 6, 7 to 8:30 pm; Trash Clean-up, Saturday March 21st, 11 am to 2 pm; and Annual Watershed-Wildflower Walk, Saturday April 18th, 10 am to 2 pm.

CLARKSBURG GATEWAY SECTOR (CGSP) PLAN UPDATE

On January 21, 2026, Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir (FoTMC) testified before the Montgomery County Council on the Planning Board Draft of The Clarksburg Gateway Sector Plan. Over our 2 ½ years of engagement with the Planning staff to help craft the Clarksburg Gateway Sector Plan (CGSP), our primary focus has been to protect and restore the health of the streams, conserve the forests, and ensure clean drinking water by protecting Little Seneca Lake Reservoir, the region’s back-up drinking water supply.

Despite the lack of responsiveness to our concerns for the forests and the waters, we will be sending comments to the County Council in advance of the planned Council vote on March 24th. We invite others to do the same.

ACTION ALERT!! SPEAK UP FOR THE FORESTS, STREAMS, AND CLEAN DRINKING WATER OF LITTLE SENECA RESERVOIR

ACTION ALERT!!

SPEAK UP FOR THE FORESTS, STREAMS, AND CLEAN DRINKING WATER
OF LITTLE SENECA RESERVOIR

A hearing on the Clarksburg Gateway Sector Plan is coming before the County Council on January 21, and we need your voice to help protect the Little Seneca Lake Reservoir.

Save the Dates: Annual Meeting and Autumn Watershed Walk on our New Land

Save the Dates: Friends of Ten Mile Creek & Little Seneca Reservoir Invites You to Our Annual Meeting, Sunday, Oct 19, and Autumn Watershed Walk on our New Land, Saturday, Oct 25

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Why is Ten Mile Creek Important?

Ten Mile Creek, located near Clarksburg, Maryland, is one of the healthiest waterways remaining in the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed and supports a greater diversity of aquatic life — insects, salamanders, and fish — than any other stream in Montgomery County. The creek is of such high quality that it is considered a “reference stream” which scientists use as a “measuring rod” to judge the health of other area streams.

Ten Mile Creek is also the cleanest tributary flowing into Little Seneca Reservoir, the closest emergency drinking water supply for 4.3 million people in the Washington, DC area. The watershed and reservoir is a critical natural infrastructure component of our regional drinking water system and a popular recreational resource for canoeing, kayaking, hiking, picnicking, fishing, bird watching, and other activities.

Help Us Protect this Vital Watershed

Despite its importance to our regional water system, the Ten Mile Creek watershed is constantly threatened by development proposals. The Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir, formed in August 2014, aims to protect this watershed from any further development which would degrade its health and impact the quality of water that flows into Little Seneca Reservoir.

We help citizens from around the region connect to this special place, advocate for its protection, and learn about the importance of the creek and reservoir, both as unique ecological treasures and as integral components of our regional drinking water system.

Through our advocacy and education efforts, we hope to inspire a sense of stewardship for these specific resources, and, together with other local watershed groups, to work to protect all streams and rivers in the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay watersheds.

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