Forest Hills Connection || News and Life in Our DC Neighborhood
Covering Forest Hills, Van Ness, North Cleveland Park and Wakefield
by Pat Kasdan Casey Trees is a DC nonprofit founded by Betty Brown Casey on 2002, in memory of her husband, who had loved trees. Its mission is “To restore, enhance and protect the tree canopy of the nation’s capital.” The District’s tree canopy covered approximately 50 percent of the city in 1950, but had […]
by Marlene Berlin January, for many of us, is a month for cleaning up our lives and our homes. Last year, the KonMari tidying craze gripped the DC area, with furloughed government workers and contractors stuck at home during the shutdown. Apartment Therapy does a “January Cure” every year – a 20-day guide to cleaning […]
If you’ve been reading Forest Hills Connection for a while, you will not be surprised that we are excited about the return of the UDC Master Naturalist program. As Marlene Berlin wrote ahead of UDC’s first Master Naturalist training in 2018, “One of the great joys in five years of publishing Forest Hills Connection has […]
by Marjorie Rachlin Bad news. Forest Hills is about to lose some of its big oaks, the pride and glory of our neighborhood. Look around your block (wherever you live), and you might spot a big oak where all the leaves at one side, or at the top, are already brown and dry. That’s a […]
It’s not supposed to be 98 degrees in October. But that was the official high on Tuesday, October 2nd. Official highs for today:DC: 98, monthly and daily recordDulles: 96, monthly and daily recordBaltimore: 98, monthly and daily record — Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) October 2, 2019 When we spend time outdoors in this kind of […]
by Marlene Berlin After rain falls, where does it go? Sometimes our yards get too soggy, our basements flood or sump pumps rev into action. After last summer’s soaking, new springs burst forth which flowed down our sidewalks and streets. But a great deal of it is collected and poured directly into the streams that […]
by Marlene Berlin A deteriorating, 110-year-old sewer system runs through the Soapstone Valley. The National Park Service and DC Water have released the environmental assessment of DC Water’s preferred plan to rehabilitate the system. The federal and city agency will hold a public meeting on this subject June 26th at the Forest Hills of DC […]
by Andrea Molod The DC Water board has voted to enact two changes to the Clean River Impervious Area Charge (CRIAC) that will ease the burden on individual homeowners. When fully implemented, the changes will amount to a reduction of homeowner CRIAC fees by up 37%, with an option for an additional 20% discount for […]
Rock Creek speaks to many of us. But it cannot speak for itself. That’s where we come in. One of the public meetings on a District plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay watershed (including Rock Creek and its tributaries) is happening this Wednesday at UDC. You can register here. Here’s the notice from UDC’s […]
by David Jonas Bardin DC Water came to Tuesday night’s ANC 3F meeting to let us know they’re getting closer to revealing the latest plan to address Soapstone Valley’s 110-year-old sanitary sewer system. The environmental assessment is to be issued in the next month or so for public comments. DC Water engineer Louis Arguello spoke […]
