{"id":374,"date":"2021-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/?p=374"},"modified":"2022-07-16T17:55:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T21:55:50","slug":"rethink-flood-prevention-i-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/2021\/09\/13\/rethink-flood-prevention-i-getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Flood Prevention I: Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the front page of yesterday’s Star-Ledger<\/em> there was a story entitled “Towns must rethink flood prevention, experts say.” There’s a lot to write about this piece, and this opening salvo will be brief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I see reference to an “expert,” or multiple “experts,” I usually suspect that it’s going to be a disguised opinion piece. That’s certainly what this one seems to be. After the obligatory reference to climate change, a large portion of the story is devoted to (and supportive of) stormwater “utilities,” a relatively new option for local governments to impose taxes (only they don’t call them that) so that some portion of the money raised can be used to address stormwater runoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I plan to talk about stormwater utilities in more detail in an upcoming post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay Bohn
September 13, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the front page of yesterday’s Star-Ledger there was a story entitled “Towns must rethink flood prevention, experts say.” There’s a lot to write about this piece, and this opening salvo will be brief. When I see reference to an “expert,” or multiple “experts,” I usually suspect that it’s going to be a disguised opinion … Continue reading “Rethinking Flood Prevention I: Getting Started”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}