New Jersey’s efforts to manage increasing volumes of stormwater took an important step forward last month when New Brunswick become the first municipality to launch a “stormwater utility,” a new mechanism that allows local government to charge landowners a fee based on how much water runoff their properties produce.
More than five years after the state passed a law giving municipalities a way to pay for building so-called “green infrastructure” to absorb heavy rainstorms, New Brunswick’s City Council voted to put the utility in motion and start operation in July.
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