Driveway along Hidden Lane Landfill, Sterling; Sugarloaf Mt. on horizon The Hidden Lane Landfill, off Persimmon Lane in Sterling, VA, pictured below, has been an EPA "brownfields" cleanup site since 2005.  As cleanup proceeds to its final stages, it will soon be time for the community to help decide what will become of the site.  Toward that end, there will be a public meeting, date TBD but likely in June or July this year.  There will be a chance for the public to visit the site (PLEASE don't go on your own--there are still hazards from the cleanup, e.g. boreholes, and it is privately owned) The pollutant, trichloroethene (TCE), has been found to be mainly hundreds of feet underground, possibly affecting well-water but not a significant danger at the surface--either on the landfill itself or in the wide adjacent floodplain between it and the Potomac River.   Landfill mound in foreground (darker vegetation); behind it are wide flood plain, Potom...

Scheduled to open in early 2019, this 3/4-mile walkway will become a jewel on the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail in Woodbridge! It will link the Rippon Lodge/Blackburn Road area with the Metz Wetlands/Leesylvania Park. The 2nd video is taken from the opposite side, (Metz Wetlands/Neabsco Road). The construction has not yet reached the shore, but is getting close. The workers bootstrap their way across, using the just-completed section to build the next. The construction machinery is visible at the beginning of the video. The section at the end of the video is the same as in the first video from the Blackburn Road side.

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