Trail Closure at Lake Accotink Park

[Jan Johnson]

I believe that it was created as a reservoir for Camp Humphries, which I think was pre-Belvoir
Wikipedia has an entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Accotink

[mstone]

yes, was originally a reservoir. it's been dredged before, more than once, but dredging is a lot more expensive and there's nowhere left to put the dirt. basic problem is too much sediment coming in, because of bad land management practices going back decades which won't be fixed. (it's expensive, and there's no incentive to do so as the costs are fully externalized.) remember the "rain tax" that was got so much ridicule a few years back? this is some of what happens when there isn't one.