Clarksburg Ten Mile Creek

More Clarksburg development threatens Ag Reserve.   

Let’s Protect the Ten Mile Creek Watershed  

This watershed in Clarksburg, Maryland, contains some of the most healthy drinking water in our area. It’s included in a county-designated “Special Protection Area.” Since 1994, however, massive development in the town of Clarksburg has savaged local streams. And now proposed new developments and a huge county bus depot threaten what is left. Click map to enlarge.

Voice your support of Ten Mile Creek Watershed in one email copied to these decisionmakers:

Montgomery County Executive Leggett
Council President Andrews
Planning Board Chairman Hanson

Tell them:

1. Who you are
2. To support the Planning Board staff recommendation, which proposes moving the bus depot to an alternate site outside the “Special Protection Area”
3. To downsize the amount of impervious surface and development (the current master plan allows 1,643 residential units and many scores of acres of office & retail space).
4. You can also add one or two points from the Ten Mile Creek Fact Sheet.

Please send your email asap! A Planning Board Hearing will take place Thursday, July 9 at 1 p.m., and a decision will be made by the County Council in the fall.

Let Dolores Milmoe know if you or your group can testify at the Planning Board Hearing.
 

Thank you for helping to protect our area waterways!

 

Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, Inc.
8940 Jones Mill Road
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
301-652-9188
www.audubonnaturalist.org

 

enews@audubonnaturalist.org Audubon Naturalist Society

 

Montgomery Countryside Alliance thanks Audubon Naturalist Society for the use of this alert!