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YOGA CLASSES in POTOMAC and Condition of the Home Attention Postmaster: Time sensitive material. Requested in home 9-11-08 PRSRT STD A Connection U.S. Postage Newspaper PAID Martinsburg, WV Potomac PERMIT #86 Deluge News, page 4 A car plunges through standing water at the intersection of River Road and Counselman Road in Potomac Village on Saturday, Sept. 6 as Tropical Storm Hanna passes through the region. Classified, Page 17 Classified, ❖ Real Estate, Page 10 Real Estate, ❖ Churchill Grad Calendar, Page 12 Calendar, Towpath Dies in Fall Breached News, Page 5 News, page 3 Finding ‘Forever Families’ News, Page 6 Photo by Aaron Stern/Almanac by Aaron Photo September 10-16, 2008 ❖ Volume LII, Number 37 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Potomac Almanac ❖www.potomacalmanac.com September 10-16, 2008 ❖ 1 2 ❖ Potomac Almanac ❖ September 10-16, 2008 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Potomac Almanac Editor Steven M. Mauren 703-917-6451 or [email protected] News See www.potomacalmanac.com Photos by Photos Barbara Brown The entire river was brown on Friday. A view from the edge of the canal showed a hole about the size of a car. From Crack to Canyon tag is likely to be beyond the capacity of C&O Canal towpath near Old Angler’s Inn the park to shoulder on its own. breaches during Hanna’s weekend deluge. “We’re probably going to end up having to find the money somewhere to do this,” said Justice. “This is not the kind of thing By Aaron Stern the C&O Canal National Historical Park. that we have money to do in our budget.” The Almanac “Small leaks are the type of thing that we Matt Logan, founder of the C&O Canal usually deal with a little bit here and there Trust, a non-profit organization dedicated hat began as a crack in the but when a small leak gets hit by the type to raising funds to support the canal, said towpath of the C&O Canal of storm like that ….” that it will take a combination of federal, near Old Angler’s Inn on As a result of the breach, the canal is now W state, and private funds to repair the dam- Friday, Sept. 5 turned into drained from Widewater to Lock 5 near age, a project that he estimates will take a chasm over 100 feet wide and 20 feet deep Chain Bridge, roughly an 8-mile stretch. The two to three million dollars. as Tropical Storm Hanna dumped heavy breach has grown steadily since it was first rain in the region the following day. noticed as a crack on Friday. At that point HANNA MAY have been the final straw It was during Saturday’s deluge that the the footpath was still intact but cracking, for the canal breach, but it was not the towpath gave way, said park officials. and water had begun to run through a chan- cause, said Logan. Over time water seep- “There was a leak that we were aware of nel beneath it from the canal to the Potomac age can cause cracks in the towpath, as it Cracks were appearing in the on Friday but it was not a full-blown River. On Saturday the footpath gave way has done before, and this was likely the case towpath on Friday. Bike patrollers breach,” said Bill Justice, a spokesman for and since then the gap has steadily widened in this instance. Jane Collins and Barbara Brown from 20 feet to 80 feet to an estimated 125 “It’s interesting because this really wasn’t called in the problem, went to the feet as of Tuesday, Sept. 9. caused by the storm,” said Logan. Anti- Anglers parking lot and got three National Park Service staff and volunteers quated construction techniques might have red cones to warn walkers. In have begun to assess the extent of the dam- had a hand in matters as well — Logan sur about 10 minutes, maintenance age, and while no cost estimates on the arrived and blocked the towpath. necessary repairs are yet available, the price See Breached, Page 10 A new waterfall appeared at the edge of the towpath heading 50 The lip of the break is visible from the other side of feet downstream into the river. the canal. The now almost dry canal as it flowed past the break. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Potomac Almanac ❖ September 10-16, 2008 ❖ 3 This Week in Potomac News C&O Canal Park Reopens The National Park Service has reopened the parking lots and park roads at Fletchers Cove, Carderock, Anglers, Great Falls Tav- ern, Swain’s Lock, Pennyfield Lock, Violettes Lock, Seneca, and Tshiffley Mill this week that were closed due to Tropical Storm Hanna. The visitor center at the Great Falls Tavern has reopened and the visitor center and canal boat operation at Georgetown will reopen on Wednesday. Canal boat trips at the Great Falls Tavern have been cancelled while the staff continues to assess the situa- tion. The towpath breach north of Anglers has made the towpath in that area impassable. “This area is extremely dangerous,” Park Superintendent Kevin Brandt said in a statement. “Visitors should avoid the towpath in the Widewater area between Anglers and the lower end of Billy Goat Trail Section A.” A detour has been established around the breach following the Berma Road. The best place to view the breach is on the Berma Road, 1⁄4 mile from the Anglers Access. All of the trails in the Montgomery County area of the park, including Billy Goat Trail Section A, are open. The Washington D.C. section of the Capital Crescent Trail is open. GSI has resumed concession operations at Great Falls and at The Boathouse at Fletchers Cove. National Park Service staff and vol- unteers continue to assess the damage to the park done by last weekend’s storm. For safety reasons visitors should be aware of their surroundings and follow the direction of park employees. Discussing Home Invasions For more information contact the Great Falls Tavern Visitor Cen- ter at 301-714-2214. ontgomery County District 1 the all-purpose room of the school located at 9500 Councilmember Roger Berliner Seven Locks Road. The school is a short distance from Advisory Council Seeks Input M (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac) where the most recent break-in occurred. and the Montgomery County Police At the meeting, residents will be provided with The Montgomery County Public School Parent Advisory Coun- Department will hold an informational meeting at information on how to better protect themselves from cil (PAC) provides input on ways to strengthen the school system’s Seven Locks Elementary School at 8 p.m. on Tues- these types of incidents and will have the opportu- communication and parent engagement efforts. Council mem- day, Sept. 16, concerning a series of home invasions nity to ask questions. bers must be parents with at least one child in the school system, in the Bethesda-Potomac area over the past year. “Our Police Department is working very hard to and be able to serve a one-year term. PAC meetings are held four Montgomery County Police have not yet deter- solve these crimes and catch those responsible,” Ber- times during the school year. Nominations are welcome from mined if the latest crime, which occurred early this liner said in a statement. “But I am aware that many parents, community organizations and other members of the week and resulted in the death of 63-year-old Mary people want to know more about how they can avoid MCPS community. Self-nominations also will be accepted. The Frances Havenstein of the 8900 block of Seven Locks being victims of similar crimes. We will be there to deadline for submission of nominations for the 2008–2009 school Road is linked to the previous incidents. provide information and to answer questions.” year is Sept. 15. The applications are available at http:// The meeting, organized in conjunction with the For more information about the meeting, call 240- www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/ Bethesda Regional Services Center, will be held in 777-7828. familycommunity/news/PAC_Information_2008-09.pdf Forms are also available in schools or by calling the Depart- ment of Communications’ Division of Family and Community Part- by Photo nerships (DFCP) at 301-279-3100. Deluged Police Win Federal Grant Stern Aaron The U.S. Department of Justice last week awarded the Mont- Tropical Storm gomery County Police Department a $750,000 Community Ori- ented Policing Services (COPS) Universal Hiring Program (UHP) Hanna soaks grant. The competitive grant — one of 62 awarded to law en- /The Almanac forcement agencies across the country — will enable the Mont- Potomac. gomery County Police Department to hire 10 additional sworn officers for community policing to help fight crime. he remnants of Hurricane “It is important that we provide communities with the resources Hanna — downgraded to they need to keep our streets safe. COPS grants help make neigh- T a Tropical Storm — borhoods safer by increasing the number of officers available to Cars detoured around a fallen tree on Clara Barton surged through the region Satur- patrol local communities and reduce crime,” said U.S. Rep. Chris Parkway as Tropical Storm Hanna passed through the day morning and afternoon down- Van Hollen (D-8). area last Saturday. ing trees, flooding roads and leav- ing thousands of county residents without power. The storm wasn’t as bad in Potomac as many pre- Have Say in County Zoning Laws Pepco spokesman Clay Anderson said that roughly dictions had warned. Potomac received approxi- County planners have launched a public input process that in- 5,600 customers throughout Montgomery County mately six inches of rain and winds reached no higher cludes interviews with a variety of zoning code users and an online experienced power outages during and after the than 15 miles per hour, but the C&O Canal National survey available to all to gather feedback on the several-decades- storm.
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