{"id":244174,"date":"2026-07-15T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244174\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:25:09","slug":"camden-county-proposes-400m-generational-ccmua-infrastructure-project-open-space-ballot-referendum-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244174\/","title":{"rendered":"Camden County Proposes $400M \u2018Generational\u2019 CCMUA Infrastructure Project, Open-Space Ballot Referendum in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"ad-hosted\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.njpen.com\/ads\/vsj-soccerfest\/\" aria-label=\"VSJ Soccerfest\" role=\"link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SoccerFest-2026-NJPen-728x90-NEWJUNE-scaled.jpg\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"940\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Rowing-teams-and-their-supporters-at-Cooper-River-Park.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"og:image\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\tRowing teams and their supporters at Cooper River Park for the 2023 Dad Vail Regatta. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-excerpt\">The county government plans to invest in a comprehensive overhaul of its wastewater and stormwater infrastructure to mitigate flooding, improve recreation, and contribute to the ecological health of the region. A one-cent increase to the Open Space tax could help cover costs, as well as low-interest borrowing, state and federal grants, and a CCMUA rate increase. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njpen.com\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a> or subscribe to continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tBy<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMatt Skoufalos\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tJuly 15, 2026\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rowing teams and their supporters at Cooper River Park for the 2023 Dad Vail Regatta. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[104565,104566,104567,104568,104569,104570,97195,104571,104572,104573,104574,104575,62334,104576,104577,62337,69,71,70,104578],"class_list":["post-244174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-atco-lake","tag-camden-county-municipal-utilities-authority-ccmua","tag-camden-county-open-space-tax","tag-camden-county-water-quality-project","tag-ccmua-rates","tag-cooper-river-dredge","tag-daniela-solano-ward","tag-evans-pond","tag-hopkins-pond","tag-jeff-nash","tag-kirkwood-laks","tag-lake-worth","tag-matt-skoufalos","tag-newton-creek-dredge","tag-newton-creek-watershed","tag-njpen","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-scott-schreiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}