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Preventing Light Pollution in Great Falls
Supervisors approve resolution toward Urban Night Sky Place at Observatory Park.
Light Pollution
‘Our Natural Resources Are Too Important to Squander’ in Fairfax
Responding to residents, Fairfax City presses pause on proposed trail that would have removed 400 trees.
trees
County Supervisor Seeks $5M Contribution to Herndon
Downtown development continues to be delayed.
Contribution wanted
There’s Fun for All Ages at Centreville Day
29th annual celebration is Saturday, Oct. 16.
Centreville Day
Changes to Ride On Bus Schedules in Potomac
Bus Schedules
Offer to Buy River Farm Inches Up, But Declined by Seller
NOVA Parks is still part of the future at River Farm.
River Farm
Contaminated Legacy
From slave plantation to industrial pollution, a hidden history of North Old Town.
The shuttered power plant dominating the landscape in North Old Town has layers of industrial pollution, a hidden history buried under the contaminated soil of the Potomac River Generating Station. Even before the coal-fired power plant was constructed in 1949, the property was home to the American Chlorophyll Company and Potomac River Clay Works. That means the long and complicated task known as "remediating" the property could mean removing everything from coal ash and mercury to industrial fertilizer and hazardous metals.