Luzerne County reps push for end to ‘rain tax’

CHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED — During a roundtable held Sunday, March 2, elected officials from Northeast Pennsylvania raised concerns over a “rain tax,” which they said unfairly impacts property owners in the Northeast Pennsylvania portion of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. 

“This is something that we get hundreds if not thousands of calls on,” said Representative Rob Bresnahan, the newly-elected congressman for PA-08 and the organizer of the roundtable. “Because ultimately the funding goes to… clean up the Chesapeake Bay, which is hundreds of miles away from the people in Northeastern Pennsylvania.”

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“What WVSA did is they compiled municipalities together, and they’re doing what they were designed to do, what they were instructed to do by the federal government—separate stormwater from your wastewater systems. And that’s exactly what we had to do,” but ultimately there needs to be funding to support it, said Bresnahan.

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