Goose Creek Association
Celebrates Fifty Big Ones
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he Goose Creek Association (GCA), located in Middleburg, will celebrate its 50+ Anniversary, and Goose Creek’s status as a State Scenic River, with a Family Festival at Historic Aldie Mill from noon until four p.m. on Sunday, September 19.
Over the last half century, GCA has been monitoring water quality, planting riparian buffers, and establishing historic districts. Their work also includes reviewing proposed developments and local government actions that have a potential impact on the environment and quality of life in the Goose Creek water shed of Fauquier and Loudoun counties. The group is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization with hundreds of members who share a determination to
protect and preserve the natural resources, historic heritage and rural quality of life found in this stunning part of Virginia. The festival is open to the public, admission free, and will include games and activities for children (face and pumpkin painting), a juried art show, music, a wildlife exhibit, and food trucks. It’s also an opportunity to learn about conservation and the environment with exhibits about the watershed from their many partnership organizations, as well as a documentary about Goose Creek, an essential headwater of the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay water sheds. In 2021, GCA’s documentary was awarded the Grand Prize at the Virginia Environmental Film Festival. GCA was founded in 1970 to protect the water from
The graceful and lovely Goose Creek.
a development that would have deposited effluent directly into the river. Through a proactive board of directors, GCA has gone on to educate the public and advocate for traffic calming on Route 50, riparian buffers, historic districts in the state and national registers, including the Little River and Cromwells Run Rural Historic Districts, gravel roads in the Beaverdam Creek Historic Roadways District of Loudoun County, the continuation of the Virginia uranium moratorium, and other inappropriate developments that would imperil the Goose Creek water shed. Goose Creek also has maintained longstanding programs to monitor the water and plant trees as riparian buffers with adult and student volunteers. Details: www.goosecreek.org. (540) 687-3073
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