Gloucester County
“In one of its first acts of 2014, the Board of Supervisors pushed
back, albeit ever so diplomatically. With new members Mike Winebarger, Phil
Bazzani and John Meyer aboard, the board voted unanimously to direct County
Administrator Brenda Garton draft a letter to state legislators asking to delay
by a year the implementation of a state-mandated storm water management program
that critics say will prove costly to home builders, homeowners, businesses and
taxpayers.
The storm water management program is billed as protecting Chesapeake
Bay through the development and implementation of corralling storm water to
ensure sediment, nutrients and pollutants don't wash into the bay and its
tributaries. Counties are supposed to enact the new regulations by July 1.
The program is anticipated to cost Gloucester County $126,000 a year
for a six-year period beginning in 2014. The program comes with added
ordinances and requirements — and for applicants higher fees for permits and
increased costs for engineering and construction — to install infrastructure to
ensure storm water doesn't overwhelm local tributaries.”
~Writes Matt Sabo of the Daily Press
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