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Government
Stormwater fee starting to take shapePublished 11/17/07
Beside the eroded streambed of a no-name creek in a quiet Glen Burnie neighborhood yesterday, a bipartisan coalition of county councilmen unveiled plans to levy a stormwater fee on every homeowner and business in Anne Arundel.
"This is in people's communities," said Councilman Ron Dillon, R-Pasadena, as he cast a hand toward the tiny creek at the bottom of a 10-foot deep gulch, dug into the land by years of quickly rushing stormwater. "You don't have to live on the water to have a (stormwater management) problem."
The "all-payer system" devised by Mr. Dillon and Democrats Josh Cohen and Jamie Benoit would raise about $11 million...
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