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
This dataset has the following 9 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Account ID | accountid | text | Property tax account number | 00436937 03510287 02847033 02218650 02653313 view top 100 |
| Property Type | propertytype | text | Property Type | Single Family Residential Multi-Family Residential Exempt Non-Residential Government view top 100 |
| Property Sub Type | propertysubtype | text | Property Sub Type | Tier 3 Single Family Residential Multi-Family Residential Exempt Tier 1 Single Family Residential Tier 5 Single Family Residential view top 100 |
| Building Impervious sq-ft | buildingimpervious | number | The amount of rooftop impervious area in square feet | 0 84.71 47.58 97.15 313.62 view top 100 |
| Parking Impervious sq-ft | parkingimpervious | number | The amount of driveway and/or parking impervious area in square feet | 0 199.24 3.6 96.37 424.09 view top 100 |
| Recreation Impervious sq-ft | recreationimpervious | number | The amount of other impervious areas including patios, basketball courts, tennis courts, etc. in square feet | 0 26.39 1.58 19.6 6.66 view top 100 |
| Total Impervious sq-ft | totalimpervious | number | the amount of BuildingImpervious + ParkingImpervious + RecreationImpervious in square feet | 0 310.34 52.76 213.12 737.71 view top 100 |
| Property Address | address | text | Property Address | 05225 POOKS HILL RD BETHESDA, MD 208140000 04601N PARK AVE CHEVY CHASE, MD 208150000 07500 WOODMONT AVE BETHESDA, MD 208145361 10500 ROCKVILLE PIK ROCKVILLE, MD 208520000 05500 FRIENDSHIP BLV CHEVY CHASE, MD 208150000 view top 100 |
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