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These 13 'Slider' photo comparisons, each pair taken from the same place, show Hollin Hills' beautiful Goodman and Brickelmaier Parks 'Before (2021) & After (2025)' the projects.
Slide the arrows to see Goodman Park, Before & After.
Before & After at northern entry to Brickelmaier Park.
Looking north in Goodman Park. Trees replaced by metal stakes!
Natural woodland in Brickelmaier was cut down to allow huge industrial equipment to move about freely and destroy the park. CORRECT! It makes no sense!
At the foot of Goodman Park the project destroyed many trees to create a huge 'staging area' for the so-called 'construction'.
Heading up Brickelmaier path. There used to be mystery and discovery! That is replaced now with the flimsy promise of
"Just wait a century."
Tortured logic & misapplied concepts equal a forest of steel stakes & chicken wire, where a real forest once stood.
The native habitat is devastated, from the smallest ferns to the largest trees. This, to 'fix' 1 isolated area of erosion in each park?!
Homeowners along the parks saw their concerns ignored and
their prized park views demolished. By what logic would one cut down hundreds of healthy trees, many more than 100-years-old, to plant saplings which must be protected from the deer as if they are caged in a zoo?
It was quiet, private & delightful. Now, there is a giant hole in the canopy. Homeowners privacy and their singular views are lost.
In Brickelmaier Park: 'Why did they ruin my view and my privacy? For what were the trees cut down?'
"My priceless view, destroyed." --A resident on Beechwood Road whose home is alongside Brickelmaier Park.
Part of the attraction was the wildness of the parks, the "Forests Primeval" in one resident's words. See for yourself the damage wrought. And wonder why on earth CAHH would destroy this gift.
These projects were sold as 'stream restorations'. Effluent numbers were vastly overstated to justify these projects...these "Upper Headwaters" projects which no longer qualify for such extreme measures. In fact, "Upper Headwater" projects were written out of the guidelines BEFORE the Hollin Hills projects were even begun. But Fairfax County grandfathered in our 2 beautiful little brooks, and CAHH stuck by their guns even though experts and common sense told them again and again that these projects would destroy the parks as we knew them. And CAHH did so over the objections of the majority of homeowners, both across the neighborhood and alongside the parks.
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