Boston charging for stormwater runoff on your property

[Ralph Spears]

https://www.bwsc.org/news-and-events/news/stormwater

[markinnaples]

Govt overreach is crazy. We are trying to build a new house on a lot in Naples, FL, that is landlocked, bounded by houses on two sides, with other house yards on the rear and a main street in the front, but because the lot is considered low quality wetlands, they're charging me $41,000 to buy wetlands mitigation credits to save the everglades.

[muscle_collector]

they have been pulling that rip off here in tulsa for several years. they charge me about 100.00 per month on one of my properties that doesnt even have an active water meter because it is zoned commercial use.

[daverd]

More outrageous Massachusetts rip offs
I really want to leave this city and state !!

[396 SS/RS]

I was born and raised in Charlotte NC. The city started charging for storm run off around 1995 depending on square footage on anything that was not grassy land.

[olredalert]

More outrageous Massachusetts rip offs
I really want to leave this city and state !!

----That's one reason I left. That and Cape Cod becoming retirement hell. Beautiful, but summertime became a nightmare travelwise....Bill S

[Tommy Nolen]

Here in Chesterfield county, Va. where I live there was a charge for storm water run-off on my Real Estate taxes this year. I don't remember paying that before

[Ralph Spears]

In Boston you pay for stormwater runoff every month on your water bill

[396 SS/RS]

In Boston you pay for stormwater runoff every month on your water bill That's the way it was in Charlotte, NC. Your sewage disposal was the same cost as your water bill and then they added the storm water runoff.

[Vern B]

Problem is, storm water ends up in the sewer system because there’s no where else for it to go. Cities never planned for that years ago and its come back to haunt them. It’s a problem in just about ever city, big and small and it’s gotten so expensive to operate city sewage treatment plants something has to be done. I think I heard locally that storm water is taking up 30-40 % of the treatment plants capacity.

We’re just starting into it locally and people are going to be shocked with the cost of the problem.

[parkbrau]

They tax storm water drain-off here as well. It's Added into the water and sewer bill. We have a 4,000 liter underground cistern. We use that for watering the garden and occasionally I use the water to pressure wash the pavers in the yard. We asked for an exemption, and because I did it myself and was not "approved" by the municipality, the exemption was denied.