Drinking Water Tax
Urged
July 19, 2005 — By Derek Rose, Daily News
NEW YORK, N.Y. — If New Yorkers want
clean drinking water, they should ante up and pay for it.
That's the word from Putnam County Executive Robert Bondi, who has
suggested New York City residents chip in $2 a year each to keep oil,
pesticides and septic waste out of their upstate water supply.
Putnam and Westchester County residents also would be hit with the tax,
which would be used to comply with new provisions of the Clean Water
Act.
"What is needed is an annual revenue stream, one that would not present
an onerous burden to the taxpayer," Bondi wrote in a letter to mayors
and county leaders, the Westchester Journal News reported yesterday.
The money would be used to install high-tech storm drains, map storm
water discharge points and safely store risky items, including
pesticides and road salt.
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