Better to spend a million dollars putting a baffle box at the end of the street that is going to cost $$$$$$ annually to maintain rather than make sure the run-off is clean to begin with. Just dump your shit in the street and let it flow to the lagoon, no problem. If people want a clean lagoon then they can spend big money to try to capture and clean that runoff after the fact.

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This isn't about puddles in back yards and the lobbies for the mega corps know it. This is about the developer or rancher or farmer that wants free reign to drain huge land areas without any concern for downstream effects. They want to do things like they did in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s when they managed to push the Chesapeake Bay to collapse just from turbidity and nutrients when the population in the watershed was much smaller than today.

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