It looks like a parking garage...
Yesterday we had a reader inquire about a construction site that has gone up just to the right of I-95 south bound and just prior to the Lorton exit. The structure being built looks like it will be a parking garage. We've been able to gather some preliminary information, but will have more by next Tuesday.
It's a technological improvement
It took us a little while but we were finally able to find out the difference in regular dry-cleaning and new "organic" dry cleaning. There's no official criteria by which dry cleaning becomes organic, such as the way food classified with the USDA. According to Mike Choi of Center Cleaner in the Shoppes at Lorton Valley, organic dry-cleaning refers to the process by which more cleaning residue is removed from clothes after it's cleaned. The more that's removed, the better. Choi said present technology allows for 95 to 96 percent of the cleaning agent to be removed. But the biggest factor in making dry-cleaning more organic has been the removal of Tetrachloroethylene from the dry cleaning process. In the late 1980s or 1990s, …
High volume traffic in a residential area
As part of the Lorton Patch - Ask Patch series we answer questions about Lorton. Previously, we answered questions about mailboxes (or the lack thereof) in Lorton. This week we investigate Kathy Rudnicki's questions about a high-traffic area that is also residential. She wrote: 1. Can you please find out the status of the proposed improvement at the Hooes Rd./Silverbrook Rd. intersection? 2. What exactly is the plan and when will it happen? 3. How many accidents have happened there in, say, the last year or so? We're on it and we'll have answers in a week (or less). Thanks for writing in, Kristin!
Tom
11:35 am on Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Please keep me informed about garage, thanks more ›