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County staff propose 7% surface-water assessment increase after new state inspection rules
Summary
Pinellas County budget staff recommended raising the surface-water assessment from a 5% to a 7% annual increase to fund newly tightened state inspection and maintenance requirements for canals, swales and outfalls; commissioners signaled support to include the change in the budget.
Pinellas County budget staff on Aug. 28 proposed increasing the annual surface-water assessment by 7% for the coming year to cover new inspection and maintenance requirements that county staff said were added to state permits this summer.
Chris Rose, the county’s budget director, said the Department of Environmental Protection and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) implementation have changed inspection cadences: channels and canals move from five‑year to annual inspections; ditches and swales…
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