Who We Are
ABOUT US
The Goose Creek Association is a nonprofit 501C3 organization with hundreds of members from Loudoun and Fauquier counties who share a determination to protect and preserve the natural resources, historic heritage and rural quality of life found in this beautiful part of Virginia.
The Association works with an active board charged with monitoring stream water quality, proposed developments, legislation, zoning changes, and other actions that have apotential impact on the environment and quality of life in this region, and taking steps through educational forums to forestall or encourage these changes. We actively support the work of other like-minded regional groups. We work to unite with the many conservation and preservation efforts to provide a unified voice for conservation/preservation-minded citizens in the area.
OUR MISSION
Our Mission Statement adopted
(Statement Adopted by the Board on November 9, 2009)
The Goose Creek Association protects and preserves the natural resources, open space, historic heritage, and rural quality of life within the Goose Creek watershed.
Founded in 1970 to fight the discharge of sewage effluent into Goose Creek, today the Goose Creek Association is involved in a number of critical issues on both the local and state levels to maintain and improve the quality of the Goose Creek watershed through:
- Maintenance and Improvement of stream water quality in the Goose Creek watershed through stream monitoring and riparian buffers.
- Advocacy of conservation easements and purchase of development rights programs in both Loudoun and Fauquier.
- Support of the designation of historic rural villages and preservation of farmland in Loudoun and Fauquier.
- Protection of rural roads through the formation of Cromwell’s Run and Little River Historic Districts in Fauquier County and the Beaverdam Creek Historic Roadways District in Loudoun County.
The Association is committed to an assessment of the status of and protecting and preserving the entire Goose Creek watershed, which covers much of Loudoun and Fauquier counties.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2018-2019
Chair
Lori Keenan McGuiness – Co-Chair, Fauquier County
Paul Lawrence – Co-Chair, Loudoun County
Board Members
Mark L. Thompson, Treasurer
Laura Chlopecki
Kimberley Fogle
Susan Grayson
Jeff Millington
Norman Myers
Dulany Morison
Marcia Woolman
Marvin Watts
Advisory Committee
Pat McIlvane
Tom Turner
Jolly De Give
Howard Lewis
Meredith Whiting
Andrea Rosse
Holly Geary - Executive Administrator
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND GOALS
Goals
- Continue and expand upon the accomplishments of 2016.
- Hold the Annual Educational Outreach Forum.
- Partner with the Loudoun County Preservation and Conservation Coalition to bring water quality concerns to the Loudoun Board of Supervisors and the Virginia General Assembly.
- Encourage landowners along the Goose Creek and its tributaries to provide water quality protection through riparian buffers and conservation easements.
- Promote educational outreach programs.
- GCA Board will continue to work on our Goals and Mission for the future and address strategy session priorities throughout the year.
What We Do
Stream Monitoring in Goose Creek Watershed, Educational Outreach, Riparian Buffer Work with local Farms along Goose Creek.
