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541
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The Environmental Protection Agency has placed a moratorium on stormwater runoff permit requirements for most municipal facilities.
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1745
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The North Carolina League of Municipalities recently concluded a stormwater runoff permitting program that joined hundreds of local governments in a group application for the EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System stormwater runoff permits
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North Carolina citizens in certain areas are bracing for the introduction of the \"rain tax,\" a fee to pay for EPA-mandated systems to handle storm-water runoff. The tax is the latest federal environmental mandate that local governments must implement.
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3605
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The EPA has proposed regulations to become effective in May, 2002, that require local governments of certain populations to control pollution from storm sewer systems. Pitt County and Greenville are among 3,500 local governments affected.
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5183
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Campbell discusses the 1999 ruling of the North Carolina Supreme Court in Smith Chapel Baptist Church v. City of Durham. The court decided that Durham's storm watch fees were invalid because \"they were used to finance programs not authorized by the enabling statues.\"
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5829
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Storm water runoff is the leading cause of degraded water quality, which threatens human and aquatic life. Smith discusses the planning being done by counties, municipalities, developers, and the federal government to address this problem.
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Stormwater runoff is a major pollution problem for shellfish farms. Home construction in coastal areas is growing. More people mean more roads, driveways, and parking lots. Water running over these impervious surfaces picks up contaminants such as oil, sand, chemicals, and fertilizers and deposits them in nearby rivers and streams. The more contaminants the harder it is for shellfish to grow. Reconciling the demand for development and the need for healthy shellfish is a challenge facing coastal planners.
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8182
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Low-impact development, or LID, is a new stormwater management strategy. Instead of diverting runoff away from its origin, LID assimilates rainwater where it falls, through a system of small, discrete methods distributed throughout the landscape. It uses the hydrological functions that were there before the property was developed. Instead of using traditional methods of water conveyance, like roof downspouts, curbs and gutters, or drainage pipes, builders can use bioretention areas (rain gardens), grassy swales, vegetated buffer/filter strips and infiltration trenches.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 352, May/June 2005,
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