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

List of programs and cumulative acres in agricultural preservation in the County. Updated annually.

List of Farm Tour participants for the 2019 season. Updated annually.

This program provides outreach and education on recycling-related topics: waste reduction; reuse; recycling; grasscycling; composting; buying recycled; etc. This outreach/education may occur at events in the community.
The additional Recycling Calendar information can be viewed at https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DEP/calendar.html
Update Frequency : Monthly

The monthly Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission data represents Montgomery County Facilities and Fleet by month beginning July 2019.
Facilities: The Facilities GHG data represents physical structures used by County residents and County staff who provide services for County residents. Examples include recreation, libraries, theater and arts, health and human services, liquor retail, courthouses, general services, maintenance facilities, correctional facilities, police stations, fire stations, volunteer fire stations, garages, parking lots, bus shelters and park & ride locations. Facilities use the following fuel sources: grid electricity, natural gas, propane and diesel fuel.
Facilities GHG data DOES NOT include Montgomery County Public Schools, Montgomery College and Montgomery Parks Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC).
Fleet: The Fleet GHG data represents Montgomery County vehicles used by County staff who provide services for County residents. Examples include mass transit buses, snowplows, liquor trucks, light duty trucks, police cars, fire engines and fire service equipment, etc. Each County vehicle use different fuel sources (i.e. diesel, mobil diesel, compressed natural gas, unleaded and E-85).
Fleet GHG data DOES NOT include Montgomery County Public School buses, Montgomery College and Montgomery Parks Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) vehicles.
GHG Calculation Method: Facilities and Fleet fuel sources are converted into one common unit of energy- 1 Million British thermal units (MMBtu) which are then used with emissions factors and 100-year global warming potential (GWP) to calculate GHG emissions into one common unit of measure- Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent (MTCO2e).
For more information go to:
• How to Calculate GHG emissions at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq5wTjvLqnY&t=186s
• Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) at https://www.epa.gov/energy/emissions-generation-resource-integrated-database-egrid
• Emission Factors for GHG Inventories at https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-03/documents/emission-factors_mar_2018_0.pdf
Update Frequency : Monthly

Building Energy metrics resulting from the County's bench mark law. This dataset is updated annually.

This dataset show continuous emissions data from the Dickerson waste-to-energy plant. The composition of the gases generated in each combustion unit are sampled every ten seconds. This is referred to as "continuous emissions monitoring," or CEM. The numbers shown on the dataset are hourly averages.
An air pollution control retrofit at this facility in 2009 reduced nitrogen oxide emissions up to 500 tons a year.
The Resource Recovery Facility must comply with the requirements of Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) Permit # 24-031-01718, as well as Federal standards. Under this air quality permit, the Federal standard limits are posted on https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/sws/facilities/rrf/cem.html
Update Frequency : Daily

The Shady Grove Transfer Station Scale House Major Commodities data set provides monthly tonnage totals for four accepted materials: Refuse, Yard Trim, Commingled Recycling, Mixed Paper Recycling. The dataset contains all inbound tons by material. The data is provisional, and the User assumes the entire risk associated with its use of these data.
Update Frequency : Monthly