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    Water Quality Protection Charges

    Metadata Updated: February 8, 2026

    The Water Quality Protection Charge (WQPC) is a line item on your property tax bill. WQPC funds many of the County's clean water initiatives including:

    • Restoration of eroded stream banks • Upgrades to stormwater ponds • Storm drain cleaning and maintenance • Stream monitoring • Litter control programs • Stormwater facility maintenance • Installation of rain barrels, rain gardens and green roofs The WQPC is calculated based on how much of your property is impervious (does not allow rain to be absorbed into the ground). As the county is developed, more area is covered in impervious concrete, asphalt, driveways, and buildings. Instead, that stormwater collects pollutants and runs off of the impervious surfaces causing damage to streams, rivers and the Chesapeake Bay. This is also known as stormwater pollution. The clean water initiatives funded by the WQPC remediate the environmental damage caused by stormwater pollution. Further, the WQPC funds programs that are needed to meet the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit from the state of Maryland. Update Frequency : Annually

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date February 8, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from montgomerycountymd json

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    Additional Metadata

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date February 8, 2026
    Publisher data.montgomerycountymd.gov
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2023-07-05
    Data Last Modified 2026-02-01
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/data.json
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    Homepage URL https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/d/97f6-dhn4
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 53e946d3498045e9b67484f44610cc745eae794e7832cc6cec692a8a6fc379c7
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