Reston's Vibrant Waterways (and the junk people throw into them)

This past weekend, a bunch of environmentally minded Restonians took part in a cleanup of Lake Audobon. A laudable effort, which also gives us the perfect excuse to run this list of items retrieved from Reston's varied and increasingly exfoliated waterways during the massive, eight-site Potomac Watershed Cleanup earlier this spring:

• hub caps
  
• basketball shorts sized XXXXXL
  
• hula hoop
  
• glass plates
  
• a doll leg
  
• 4 shopping carts
  
• rubber boots
  
• a gutter
  
• mattresses and box springs
  
• car parts
  
• sunglasses
  
• cell phones
  
• CD player
  
• trash can lid
  
• 3 paint cans
  
• smashed tennis racket
  
• real estate signs
  
• wheel barrow
  
• Book of Mormon
  
• bag of empty prescription bottles
  
• a ball from the McDonald’s play pit.

Wow. We wonder if the Book of Mormon belonged to the guy (or gal) wearing the XXXXXL basketball shorts.

Anyhoo, more than 140 volunteers collected 180 bags of trash during the earlier cleanup. In case you're wondering about your brand-conscious neighbors, the top three brands found among the muck and debris were McDonald's, Safeway and Budweiser. Stay classy, Reston!