Take action and protect Montgomery County’s drinking water!

On September 9th, 2021, the Montgomery County Planning Board will vote whether to let the developer Pulte continue or not with its Creekside at Cabin Branch Development (Item 11 on Planning Board’s  9/9 Agenda) in Clarksburg, MD. Read more from Friends of Ten Mile Creek by clicking here. Back in… Continue reading

Take Action! Protect Ten Mile Creek Now!

What’s Happening? In 2014, ANS, Montgomery Countryside Alliance, Friends of Ten Mile Creek, and many others fought and won a long battle to protect the very delicate, fragile and pristine Ten Mile Creek Watershed from over-development, setting a limit of impervious surfaces to 6% in the most sensitive part of… Continue reading

ANS Testifies on Guidelines for Ephemeral Stream Protection in Ten Mile Creek Watershed

Today, ANS Water Quality Monitoring Coordinator Cathy Wiss testified before the Montgomery County Planning Board on a proposed update to the definition of an “ephemeral stream.” Thanks to the hard work of ANS and many other organizations, development is limited in the Ten Mile Creek watershed and ephemeral streams are… Continue reading

Final Victory for Clean Water on the Ten Mile Creek lawsuit

On November 29, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the Maryland District Court’s dismissal of Pulte’s case against Montgomery County over the County’s Ten Mile Creek Limited Master Plan Amendment. Translation: VICTORY for Ten Mile Creek! Pulte Homes is one of the top five… Continue reading

Tell the County Council – Sewers Don’t Belong in Ten Mile Creek

Emails and testimony needed  (by Monday) to protect backup water supply for 4.3 Million The County Council has provided a strong framework protection for fragile Ten Mile Creek through the Clarksburg Master Plan process. But the devil is in the details. The WSSC has been working on a Sewer Facility… Continue reading