School cafeteria. For most of the packed house, the good news that the lake will be dredged and outfitted in such a way that it will be preserved for years to come. How it will be accomplished was not ...

A blue-green algae bloom has been identified at Lake Accotink Park, which can produce toxins that pose serious health risks to people and animals. Alarm grows in Europe over what is seen as Trump's ...

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Over the last few years as the silt piled up in Lake Accotink, heated discussions on what to do with the lake amounted in a resolution to let it be and through time, it will become more a wetlands ...

SPRINGFIELD, Va. — Lake Accotink will resume water activities on Sunday after a sewage spill upstream forced its closure on Saturday. Wastewater Management announced the closure out of an abundance of ...

Fairfax County’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday created a task force charged with recommending whether the sediment-filled Lake Accotink should be restored, an effort to balance local sentiments over ...

Lake Accotink has long been a cherished oasis amid Northern Virginia’s busy streets, one dredged three times since 1965 to keep silty urban runoff from swallowing it up. With a warming climate making ...

SPRINGFIELD, Va. — The future of Lake Accotink Park is up in the air after new analysis of an effort to dredge the lake has been deemed not feasible, according to county leaders. In 2019, Fairfax ...

A Fairfax County, Virginia, police officer shot and killed a suspected rabid coyote on Sunday in the area surrounding Lake Accotink Park. The officer was part of a search group looking for the animal, ...