Rare and Beautiful Drinking Water Creeks in the Upcounty Are Worth Fighting to Protect
Ten Mile Creek
Little Seneca Creek, Dayspring Creek & Whetstone Run: along with Ten Mile Creek, these are drinking water supplies threatened by sprawl including proposed county highway projects. Citizens are urged to participate in the “Upcounty Transportation Town Hall,” October 12, 2023 at Blackrock Center For the Arts.
Diane Cameron
FoTMC-LSR and TAME Coalition (Transit Alternatives to Midcounty Highway Extended/M-83) September 17, 2023
Both Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir are located within Seneca Creek watershed, Montgomery County’s largest watershed and a designated drinking water supply. The major threat to these waterbodies is urbanization (a.k.a. sprawl) from proposed development projects. During urbanization, developers take down forests and farms, then they grade, compact and pave-over the land; the resulting runoff over time erodes streams, and silts-in lakes and the Chesapeake Bay with sediment.
Going from west to east in the upcounty, there are large proposed urbanization projects that would pave-over forests and farm fields in the Seneca Creek watershed, degrading Ten Mile Creek; Little Seneca Creek; and Great Seneca Creek. There’s still time to save these irreplaceable creeks through focused citizen action.