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Article: Stormwater tax credit passes with 6-1 vote in County Council
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- Maryland Gazette
- Article date:
- January 19, 2008
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The county will offer up to a $10,000 tax credit for people who
try to reduce stormwater pollution on their property, but other
solutions to the billion-dollar problem have yet to emerge from
months of political debate.
The tax credit, to be administered over five years, passed the
County Council last week. However, politicians and environmental and
community leaders continue to clash over how to raise money to
combat the $1 billion backlog of stream and river damage caused by
uncontrolled stormwater, which brings sediment and toxic levels of
nutrients into the county's already polluted waterways.
"We're seeing if there is some common ground, if we can find some
common ground," said ...