The county council voted 5-2 this afternoon to override last week’s veto by County Executive Laura Neuman of a stormwater pollution control fee. The fee is currently scheduled to start on July 1, and is now set at $85 per year for an average home in the county. (However, a proposed new bill was also introduced today by a majority of council members to phase in the fees, and delay the first payments until later in the year.)Better Anne Arundel than my county, Calvert. Stormwater remediation is the least cost effective means of remediation in the Bay:
The money to be raised by the fee will be used to hire contractors and construction workers. They will build wetlands, stormwater ditches and ponds, and other projects to catch and filter rainwater polluted with fertilizer, oil, antifreeze, and other toxic chemicals running off the land into the Chesapeake Bay.
On the other hand, maybe they will find something to works better for less money. And I do know a firm in Annapolis that makes nice looking wetlands out of storm water ditches.
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