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Curious if your catch basin has been cleaned? There’s a map for that. On Tuesday (Jan. 15), New Orleans officials announced the city has a new map on its website that tracks inspected catch basins and ...
Down the Drain is a WWL-TV investigative project that explores what went wrong and where the blame lies for New Orleans' drainage crisis. Down the Drain was reported and produced by WWL-TV's ...
NEW ORLEANS – The City of New Orleans deadline to have 15,000 catch basins cleaned in 120 days is up at the end of this month. This Wednesday morning Eyewitness New checked in to see the progress. At ...
>> BOTTOM LINE, WHAT WE ARE LEARNING FROM THE REPORT IS THAT THERE IS STILL AN AWFUL LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE WHEN IT COMES TO CATCH BASINS. THE IG REPORT RELEASED THIS MORNING FOCUSES ON THE EMERGENCY ...
Tropical Storm Francine has formed in the southwest Gulf of Mexico and is expected to bring hurricane impacts to Louisiana ...
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 has hit the pause button on its contract to clean thousands of catch basins in the city while it waits for the state Department of Environmental Quality to approve a plan to get rid of the ...
The city’s public works department is cutting nearly in half the number of catch basins it aims to clean in 2012. Public Works Director Mark Jernigan said he wants to clean 4,200 basins this year, ...
New Orleans has fired the company it hired to clean out thousands of clogged catch basins after the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality found the firm improperly disposed of the trash it ...
COLUMBIA — The Connecticut Department of Transportation announced a catch basin cleaning will be performed on Route 6. Staxx Construction will begin catch basin cleaning on Route 6 in Coventry, ...