Each year, a group of Winchester Homes' employees participate in the Potomac River Watershed Cleanup Day. The annual cleanup is part of the larger Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative which seeks to have the watershed free of trash by 2013.

Volunteers were at two different sites on Saturday morning - Dewey Park North in Montgomery County, Maryland and Thaiss Park in Fairfax County, Virginia. The results below speak to the amount of trash that was collected in a few hours time.

• 61 Winchester Homes' volunteers
• 107 bags of trash removed
• 525 plastic shopping bags removed
• 675 pounds of non-bagged trash

Here is a list of some of the more unique and interesting items found during the clean-up:

• 3 bike frames
• Grocery cart
• Hatchback door from Nissan
• Top of large swing set
• Propane tank
• Dead snapping turtle

Winchester Homes' volunteers joined close to 5,000 volunteers across Maryland and Virginia. As of today, the event has removed over 90 tons of trash from the Potomac River Watershed.