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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 ...

The city's Public Works department is beginning an effort to clean and repair about 15,000 catch basins, about one-quarter of the citywide total. City officials announced the plan last week, as well ...

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 ...

AFFECTING YOU. BUT FIRST, WE’RE GOING TO BEGIN RIGHT NOW WITH A STORY FROM WDSU INVESTIGATES $10 MILLION. BASICALLY UNO. TOUCHED MONEY THAT COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO CLEAN STORM DRAINS AND CATCH BASINS.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - As legislation shifting responsibility for cleaning catch basins to the Sewerage and Water Board, from where it stands right now at the city’s feet, approaches the finish line, ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans’ Department of Public Works said Wednesday (March 21) its contractor has cleaned 503 catch basins in the last month, but there’s more than 6,500 to go. The city is ...