Friends of Sligo Creek is a nonprofit community organization dedicated to protecting, improving, and appreciating the ecological health of Sligo Creek park and its surrounding watershed.
Virtual events at this time
FOSC is holding September and October events virtually.
Saturday Sept. 26th (National Public Lands Day) through Sunday October 11th, Friends of Sligo Creek is promoting an extended Individual and Family Sweep the Creek. We hope you, either as an individual or a family group, will pick up trash and litter in Sligo sometime during these two weeks. With physical distancing, of course! Share your individual sweep or other Sligo Creek pictures and we’ll feature them on a homepage gallery, on facebook, and in the newsletter!
Welcome to the FOSC website
You’re on our new website with a clean interface, new information and interactive features as well as many of the resources from the old site. We’re not finished transferring all the material we definitely want to include, but it’s coming in the next few months as we review and update it. Revisions to the mobile view are also underway.
Please let us know what else you’d like to see or if you don’t find what you’re looking for.
-Mike Smith, President of FOSC
News & Updates
Ellsworth Drive Synthetic Turf Proposal
Update: Written comments on abandonment of Ellsworth Drive are open through Sept 28.
See FOSC’s Sept 21 letter to the MCDOT Hearing Examiner on Ellsworth Abandonment (ie, relinquish public ownership to a private owner) between Fenton St and Georgia Ave, Case AB-771, under Letters and Testimony.
Feel free to borrow text from it in your own letter. For background information, please see Current Issues under the Advocacy tab.
Submit your letter to Tiara McCray, Hearing Examiner, by Sept 28:
This is an important issue for downtown Silver Spring. FOSC opposes roadway abandonment to allow installation of synthetic turf because of human health and environmental pollution impacts.
Plastic bits from the newly installed synthetic turf in the Discovery Building courtyard 9.2020
Next, the Hearing Officer will make a recommendation to the County Executive; the County Executive will make a recommendation to the County Council; and the Council will vote on whether to approve the abandonment (transfer ownership from the public sector to the private developer) of Ellsworth.
