Lake Barcroft - any residents?

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Anonymous wrote:My 15 year old went to an end of school small gathering. Apparently they went down to the lake and canoed and swam in it. When I picked him up, I was nauseated by the sight of that water! Went online to find that they've had FOUR raw sewage spills in that lake, latest being 2015, and residents have had issues with e-coli. County knew about the spills, didn't notify residents right away. Apparently a resident who's dd got sick, took it upon herself to test the water, only to THEN have the county come clean..

SO not ok

Wondering if anyone lives there and can update me as to issues with water? Having my kid wash in Hibicleans (probably overkill, but the pharmacist was horrified and told me that was what to do).

Millennial born and raised in Lake Barcroft - and *gasp* - a product of FCPS and JEB Stuart. Just bought a house after 8 years in Arlington and moved back to start a family. I swim in the lake all summer long like many residents. Fear not helicopter mom. It was a phenomenal place to grow up and I hope my kids enjoy it as much as I did.

The water quality is monitored and managed by a WID that is funded by a special tax district: http://www.lakebarcroftwid.com/about_v2.html

Details about water quality are here: http://www.lakebarcroftwid.com/documents/WID_LBA_WaterQualityAdvisory_140728.pdf

Thank you for posting about the water quality. My kids love that lake.

OP is worse than a helicopter mom. She's obviously mentally ill and histrionic, and we should just ignore her and her craziness. She desperately wants this attention, so we're all just feeding the beast.

+1. My friends live in LB and their DD just graduated from Stuart and is heading to Yale this fall. Those kids turn out great.

Let's not get crazy here. Stuart is fine and I am sure your friends DD is a self starter and took some ap courses at other FCPS.
But what is the % of kids not going to college let alone ivy school?

Then you'd be wrong. She expects to get an IB diploma from Stuart. No AP courses.

The point was she thrived at a diverse school. Why are you so threatened by it?

Getting in is one thing but the best Stuart kids won't be as prepared as a mediocre McLean or Langley graduate.

That's obviously false, and only underscores your own stupidity.

Is you are mediocre and surrounded by low achievers you are great

And, apparently, if you are mediocre and surrounded by high achievers, you're pathetic.

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Different poster here. Love this. How true!

Nope

You're going to have to work harder than that to convince me I'd rather live in, what, Pimmit Hills than a more attractive neighborhood like Lake Barcroft/Sleepy Hollow.

Who are u talking to. Wrong thread bro.

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I know nothing of the water quality, but one of the worst people I've ever known (pedophile enabler) lived next to the lake. I know, it could happen anywhere, but for some of us mention of the lake is triggering.

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There are some beautiful houses on the lake. It is a unique area in the region. Some people do private, but there is a lot of community support for Glasgow/Stuart or whatever its new name is.

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I was given the impression that the population includes many DINKs or retired folk?

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Anonymous wrote:I know nothing of the water quality, but one of the worst people I've ever known (pedophile enabler) lived next to the lake. I know, it could happen anywhere, but for some of us mention of the lake is triggering.

Is that person still living there? Was he/she ever caught and prosecuted?
and by pedophile enabler, isn't that also s pedophile?

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Anonymous wrote:It is great, notice nobody on here has said they live there. I am willing to bet they were out bid on the house they wanted so now they trash it. Same thing happens in Bethesda,

The lake is fine, you can use boats on it, electric pontoon boats, kayaks, canoes paddle boards, etc. 5 white sand beaches. Yep, some of the schools are not great but my kids go to TJ after going to the local schools there.

SO imagine waking up this morning, walking down to your dock, meeting friends for a 2 hour paddle board ride driving 15 minutes do downtown instead of getting up and sitting in traffic on 66 for hours and hating life.

Downtown Ballston? Is that what you mean? Because to downtown DC in morning rush hour can easily take you 45 to an hour.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd still pick it over some place like Pimmit Hills.

Kind of like Pimmit Hills without the water.

This is the funniest post I've ever read on dcum.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd still pick it over some place like Pimmit Hills.

Kind of like Pimmit Hills without the water.

This is the funniest post I've ever read on dcum.

Funny but I would say minus the good schools, new construction and metro redevelopment

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Anonymous wrote:Let's not get crazy here. Stuart is fine and I am sure your friends DD is a self starter and took some ap courses at other FCPS.
But what is the % of kids not going to college let alone ivy school?

NP: I don't understand this post... your kid is obviously brilliant and talented and would thrive at any school -- or am I wrong and your kid needs a rising tide to lift his/her boat?

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I'm wouldn't do my shopping on Columbia Pike let alone live off of it especially that far down it. I can appreciate some brick ramblers with lake views but my couple times going around there wasn't for me. And if one kid makes it out to an ivy does that mean a school is great? What about the majority who don't?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm wouldn't do my shopping on Columbia Pike let alone live off of it especially that far down it. I can appreciate some brick ramblers with lake views but my couple times going around there wasn't for me. And if one kid makes it out to an ivy does that mean a school is great? What about the majority who don't?

Stuart graduating a bunch of first-generation students who attend George Mason or VCU is probably more impressive than a school like Marshall graduating a bunch of privileged kids who go to George Mason and JMU.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm wouldn't do my shopping on Columbia Pike let alone live off of it especially that far down it. I can appreciate some brick ramblers with lake views but my couple times going around there wasn't for me. And if one kid makes it out to an ivy does that mean a school is great? What about the majority who don't?

Stuart graduating a bunch of first-generation students who attend George Mason or VCU is probably more impressive than a school like Marshall graduating a bunch of privileged kids who go to George Mason and JMU.

Pp here, I would buy that. I have always chalked lake barcroft up to areas like fort hunt off of GWP in Alexandria. Decent SFH neighborhoods that suffer from va's tendencies to still clump public housing together in historically minority corridors even if it sinks a few neighborhoods as long as it doesn't touch where the donor class lives.

While it might be easy to spot why the areas are in decline it doesn't make them any less in decline or desirable in the new market's rush towards precieved quality.

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Anonymous wrote:What a snotty thread. OP freaks out about DISGUSTING RAW SEWAGE OMG and then wants to know if any LB residents post here?

I think the county not telling residents about raw sewage leaking into their private lake is beyond bad. Fining them for it is beyond the pale.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm wouldn't do my shopping on Columbia Pike let alone live off of it especially that far down it. I can appreciate some brick ramblers with lake views but my couple times going around there wasn't for me. And if one kid makes it out to an ivy does that mean a school is great? What about the majority who don't?

Stuart graduating a bunch of first-generation students who attend George Mason or VCU is probably more impressive than a school like Marshall graduating a bunch of privileged kids who go to George Mason and JMU.

Pp here, I would buy that. I have always chalked lake barcroft up to areas like fort hunt off of GWP in Alexandria. Decent SFH neighborhoods that suffer from va's tendencies to still clump public housing together in historically minority corridors even if it sinks a few neighborhoods as long as it doesn't touch where the donor class lives.

While it might be easy to spot why the areas are in decline it doesn't make them any less in decline or desirable in the new market's rush towards precieved quality.

I'm not sure why you'd say the areas are in decline when the housing prices have been appreciating over the past decade (22% in 22044 and 10% in 22041). Another thing that tells you the area is holding its own is the fact that the number of white students at Stuart has been increasing in recent years (which is relevant in this context since whites in Fairfax County usually are at least middle-class).

The recent experience in both eastern Falls Church and South Arlington shows that, at some point, higher-income people are prepared to set aside some of their prejudices against brown and black people when the alternative is living in an outer suburb or exurb with a miserable commute.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in Lake Barcroft and love it. All of us (including 2 small kids) swim in the water and have never had any problems. The county just built a big new sewage overflow system so that there wouldn't be leaks into the lake again.

I'd much rather swim in this water than the chlorinated crap at any pool. To each his own

OP. Thank you. Good to know. Wanted to hear from a resident. We are ocean people. Your neighborhood is absolutely beautiful! Didn't even know it existed. What an oasis of peace!