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Jun 23, 2010

Federal Government To Shove Stormwater Costs on District Residents

Photo by Samer Farha Back in April, the regional Environmental Protection Agency coordinator for the U.S. Department of Defense sent a letter to D.C. Water complaining about their bill. The letter identified a charge that the Department of Defense doesn’t want to pay: the impervious surface area charge, which pays for the maintenance of storm sewers that collect rainwater runoff. The Government Accountability Office backed up DOD: The entire federal government wants out of this…

 
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