With a growing backlog of $400 million in restoration work needed, county officials and environmental interests are quietly talking about charging property owners an annual fee that would average about $60 per household.
But getting that done politically in a fiscally conservative county could be as big a task as stopping the tons of polluted sediment washing every year into the Chesapeake Bay.
The county currently spends about $11.5 million a year to repair the...
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