West Old Baltimore Road is our adopted rural rustic road. Let’s clean up the road!
We will meet on West Old Baltimore Road at the Ten Mile Creek Ford at 11:00.
Best to park on the East side of the Creek where more parking is available.
We will provide garbage bags for collecting the trash.
Jay Cinque has offered to load the trash collected into his truck and take it to the dump.
For more information contact John Parrish, lifeonearth@verizon.net
Save the Dates: Friends of Ten Mile Creek & Little Seneca Reservoir Invites You to Montgomery County Executive Candidates Green Forum, Monday evening March 1 6, 7 to 8:30 pm; Trash Clean-up, Saturday March 21st, 11 am to 2 pm; and Annual Watershed-Wildflower Walk, Saturday April 18th, 10 am to 2 pm.
Read MoreOn January 21, 2026, Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir (FoTMC) testified before the Montgomery County Council on the Planning Board Draft of The Clarksburg Gateway Sector Plan. Over our 2 ½ years of engagement with the Planning staff to help craft the Clarksburg Gateway Sector Plan (CGSP), our primary focus has been to protect and restore the health of the streams, conserve the forests, and ensure clean drinking water by protecting Little Seneca Lake Reservoir, the region’s back-up drinking water supply.
Despite the lack of responsiveness to our concerns for the forests and the waters, we will be sending comments to the County Council in advance of the planned Council vote on March 24th. We invite others to do the same.
Read MoreACTION ALERT!!
SPEAK UP FOR THE FORESTS, STREAMS, AND CLEAN DRINKING WATER
OF LITTLE SENECA RESERVOIR
A hearing on the Clarksburg Gateway Sector Plan is coming before the County Council on January 21, and we need your voice to help protect the Little Seneca Lake Reservoir.
Read MoreSave the Dates: Friends of Ten Mile Creek & Little Seneca Reservoir Invites You to Our Annual Meeting, Sunday, Oct 19, and Autumn Watershed Walk on our New Land, Saturday, Oct 25
Read MoreAs we review FOTMC’s work and activities over the last couple of years, we are reminded of why our mission to serve as guardians of Ten Mile Creek and its watershed began. We remember the urgent need to protect what has been called “the last best stream” in Montgomery County by protecting the forests, tributaries, and wetlands of the Ten Mile Creek watershed. Ten Mile Creek is the 2nd largest, and the cleanest, tributary flowing into Little Seneca Reservoir, the back-up drinking supply for 5 million people in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area.
Read MoreThe mission of Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir is to serve as guardians of Ten Mile Creek and its watershed, preserving and protecting this unique place and ensuring that Ten Mile Creek continues to provide clean drinking water to Little Seneca Reservoir – a backup drinking water supply for the Washington, DC Metropolitan region and an important recreational resource. Ten Mile Creek is the cleanest of three main streams – Little Seneca Creek, Ten Mile Creek, Cabin Branch – that feed into the Reservoir.
Read MoreFOTMC has been leading annual Spring Watershed/Wildflower walks to introduce people to the unique flora of the Ten Mile Creek Watershed and to enjoy the beauty of the surrounding forest and streams. On beautiful spring Day in April, a group of 20 intrepid explorers gathered at the Cinque’s, where Jay ferried our group on the tractor-pulled hay wagon to our starting point, across the Ten Mile Creek Ford, to where our exploration of the Watershed and Wildflowers began. This Spring outing was special because it took place on the 50-acre tract of land that Norman Mease gifted to our organization.
Read MoreSince 1997, volunteers with Nature Forward have been monitoring two sites on Ten Mile Creek four times a year to assess the health of the creek. One site is on the “mainstem” of the creek just upstream of the ford on West Old Baltimore Road, and the other site is on the tributary that runs alongside West Old Baltimore Road.
Read MoreFOTMC members are always working to keep the Ten Mile Creek area trash-free. As a participant in the “adopt-a-road” program, we regularly haul away trash dumped along West Old Baltimore Road, and our hardworking volunteers also remove a lot of trash from the Creek at the stream ford…
Read MoreThe western portion of the Ten Mile Creek watershed is part of the 93,000-acre Agricultural Reserve, “the country’s most successful farmland preservation program,” established in 1980.
Read MoreFOTMC is the proud recipient of a generous land donation. Norman Mease, a FOTMC Board Member, donated 52 acres of his land, encompassing both sides of Ten Mile Creek, to the continued care and oversight of Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir
Read MoreSave the date:
The Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir will hold their Annual Meeting on Sunday, October 19 beginning at noon @ the Cinque Farm. It will be a PotLuck. FOTMC will provide appetizers and refreshments.
All are welcome! More to come.
Read MoreFOTMC members have been participating in the formulation of the Clarksburg Gateway Sector Plan since 2023. Our goal has been the preservation of forests, protection of streams and wetlands, and safeguarding the water quality of Little Seneca Lake Reservoir, the region’s back-up drinking water supply.
Read MoreSince 2023, FOTMC members have been actively participating in the formulation of the Clarksburg Gateway Sector Plan. Our goal has been the preservation of forests, protection of streams and wetlands, and safeguarding the water quality of Little Seneca Lake Reservoir, the region’s back-up drinking water supply.
Read MoreJohn Parrish and rg Steinman will be leading the The Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir (FOTMC) annual Watershed/Wildflower walk from 10:00 to 2:00 on Saturday, April 19th. We are calling this a Watershed/Wildflower Walk because FOTMC is a watershed group, with wildflowers as one component of the watershed. We will meet at the Cinque Farm, 22300 Slidell Rd, at 10:00 am and depart, by hay wagon, at 10:15 to cross the ford, where our walk begins….
Read MoreUpdated 10/10/2024: The Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir will hold our Annual Meeting on October 19 at 1 pm in the Gothic Dairy Barn at the Linden Farm in Dickerson (20900 Martinsburg Road, Dickerson, MD 20842). It will be a Potluck, and there will be live music....
Read MorePoolesville Day is just around the corner, September 21, from 10:00 - 4:00. Poolesville Day is a one-day, family-friendly FREE event in the agricultural reserve. Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir will have a booth with members available to describe who we are and what we do and brochures with more details.
If you have never attended Poolesville Day, there is an excellent description, with photos and map, online.
For more details, visit the official website, https://www.poolesvilleday.com/
Save the date:
The Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir will hold their Annual Meeting on October 19 at 1 pm @ the Cinque Farm. It will be a PotLuck. All are welcome! More to come.
The Friends of Ten Mile Creek & Little Seneca Reservoir will be leading a Watershed and Wildflower Walk on Saturday April 13th from 12:00 to 4:00 pm. If it’s raining, we will postpone it to Sunday April 14th at noon.
Read MoreAs earth moving begins on Pulte's Creekside at Cabin Branch development the stream is likely to become cloudy after rainstorms and sediment will be most visible to the public at the stream ford. FoTMC members have also noticed more instances of illegal dumping at the ford and along West Old Baltimore Road. Read more for links to report any violations you might witness.
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