Stone Harbor Borough Council has allotted $375,000 in its 2024 municipal budget for a feasibility study on the establishment of a stormwater utility. According to the Press of Atlantic City, the borough requested a state grant to conduct such a study in November 2022, but did not receive it. Stormwater utilities are not new. Over 1,700 of them are in operation across 40 states, but there are none operational in New Jersey. They represent a fee-based approach to funding maintenance and improvement of public stormwater systems.