Fairfax County considers canceling plans to dredge Lake Accotink once more, saying it would be too costly and potentially more harmful to the environment.
In 2019, when the amount of incoming sediment settling in the lake had increased to nearly 20,000 cubic yards per year, the county and area residents agreed on what they thought would be a permanent solution. They developed a plan to dredge 350,000 cubic yards, bringing the lake’s depth back to eight feet, with other dredges to take place in subsequent years.
being hauled away, as was earlier believed. After consulting with Dominion, the county learned that the sediment would block the power lines in the event of an emergency and that the area is in a flood plain, department officials said.That makes it necessary to use another site, probably in the same park, that would require about seven acres of trees to be cleared away to make room for the staging.
Allan Robertson, who co-founded Save Lake Accotink, a community group instrumental in formulating the 2019 dredging plan, said Cook also argued that the potential environmental effects, through truck trips and tree clearing, would not be as great as the public works department suggests. “They’re not just healthy systems that are operating under normal, healthy conditions,” said Joe Wood, a senior scientist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation focusing on Virginia. “They are systems that are being flooded with high volumes of erosion and high volumes of storm water. You have to keep investing and taking care of these waterways that have been so disturbed.
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