This chronology provides a more detailed history of events affecting Ten Mile Creek and the Little Seneca Reservoir beginning with water supply studies and the record drought of the 1960s. However, as told by FoTMC Board member Norman Mease, the ford at Old Baltimore Road was known at least as far back as agricultural settlement as a place where there was always water, even in times of serious drought. Friends of Ten Mile Creek, formed in 2014, are proud to carry on a long tradition of citizen efforts to protect this watershed, which is part of our critical natural infrastructure and a lifeline of the lifeline water infrastructure that serves the entire Washington Metropolitan Area.

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