I don’t get it.
If New Jersey was in a severe multi-year drought, do you think the state and the localities would suspend the operations and budgets of the “storm water utilities”, or keep everyone on salary (& pensions and benefits) with little to do?
The issue is a local “public works” job, and instead of more taxes, state and local funding should be re-prioritized as needed to respond to “storm water” conditions. There is no need for new bureaucrats or new taxes.
Exactly so. Here in FL, we have zoning requirements that require all new constructions to have a run-off holding pond for their parking lots and new subdivision streets, to return the rain run-off to the ground water table instead of the sewer system or creeks and bays..................