OF NICHOSLA HERE IN NEW ORLEANS MANY OF YOU SAY YOU’RE WORRIED ABOUT THE RAIN FROM THIS TROPICAL STORM, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THERE’S A LOT OF DEBRIS LEFT FROM IDA. SOME OF IT IS BLOCKING STORM. DRAINS ...
NEIGHBORS TO SEE IF IT’S MAKING A DIFFERENCE. IF YOU LIVE IN A CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS THE CITY ON ANY GIVEN DAY, YOU MIGHT WALK OUT OF YOUR HOME AND SMELL WHAT SMELL YOU SMELL. IT’S AN ONGOING ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans has a ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - As another two days of rain is expected, possible flooding concerns creep to the top of the mind for many people living in New Orleans. In July, the city’s Department of Public ...
The city officially launched its “Adopt-A-Catch Basin” pilot program in Greenpoint on Tuesday, hoping to deputize locals as volunteer storm drain supervisors. Greenpointers who sign up for the program ...
The failure of a key Sewerage & Water Board turbine and other equipment worsened street flooding on Feb. 3 in Hollygrove and Uptown neighborhoods, and the sheer volume of rain over a four-hour period ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - After years of discussion and planning, the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO) will formally take over catch basin maintenance and related drainage work starting ...
DETROIT (WXYZ) — There are more than 90,000 catch basins in the city of Detroit. Some people call them storm drains and they can be the source of flooding on ...
The latest round of New Orleans street flooding Saturday night resulted from a familiar combination of overwhelming rainfall and failure of the Sewerage & Water Board’s archaic system of supplying ...
NEW ORLEANS — It's a question New Orleanians are often heard asking before expected heavy rain, "Are my catch basins clean?" According to the city's most recent numbers, thousands upon thousands of ...