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The bill, approved by the New Jersey Assembly and the Senate, would allow municipalities to create utilities that can collect fees from homeowners and business owners that have large paved surfaces, like driveways and parking lots. During storms, rainwater mixes with pollutants on those surfaces before running into sewers and drains.
Large paved surfaces are usually limited by zoning laws. As in, only a certain percentage of the lot can have a non-porous footprint. Where I live now in NC, we are limited to: only 25% of the lot can have a non-porous footprint (which means buildings, paved walkways/driveways, patios, pools, etc.).
They are already doing this in the Susquehanna watershed under mandate from the EPA. The bills just went out about month back in my area, people are losing their minds because some of them are quite expensive. The money is supposed to be spent on storm water upgrades.
Maryland tried that, then it was defeated. If Murphy wants to do it, then he should do it. He ran his campaign on raising taxes more than a billion dollars. I don't see the problem, it's what the voters wanted.
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City of Richmond did it with the collected monies earmarked for storm water management programs, my moms condo community was billed with each owner paying a portion.
I’m trying to figure out what the problem is here.
Processing contaminated water costs money. Who is supposed to pay for that expenditure if not the people who actually contaminate the water and expect it to get recycled?
I wish you guys were this vigilant about war spending...God forbid.
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