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Montgomery Serves has named the Little Falls Watershed Alliance (LFWA) as the 2025 Volunteer Group of the Year. The Montgomery Serves Awards event honors extraordinary volunteers and community leaders in Montgomery County Maryland.  The Volunteer of the Year Award recognizes individuals and groups who have demonstrated extraordinary volunteerism within the last year.

LFWA, founded in 2008 by a group of neighbors, has a mission to sustain and protect the natural environment of the Little Falls watershed located in lower Montgomery County and Upper Northwest DC focusing on action, education and stewardship.   They have engaged over 10,000 volunteers to pick up trash, restore habitat, monitor the water quality in the local creeks, and more at more than 1,000 work days. 

Along with working to remove the vines and shrubs that are strangling and killing the trees in the local parks, LFWA volunteers have restored five green areas replacing non-native invasive weeds with native trees, grasses, flowers and other plants.   

Their trash abatement program has cleaned over 70,000 pounds of trash from area creeks, roadways and parkland. 

LFWA’s active water quality monitoring program tests their creeks for fecal bacteria pollution every summer.  That testing led to the discovery of an illegal sewer hook-up from a local hotel into the Willett Branch.