NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans is ramping up efforts to clean more than 7,000 catch basins across the city. In the last two months, contractors have reportedly cleared 1,500 catch basins, an ...

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 ...

A massive push to clean New Orleans’ catch basins in the wake of last summer’s floods was spread widely through much of the city's east bank, though not always in the worst-inundated areas, and with a ...

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 New Orleans Metro is preparing for possible tropical weather. Now is the time to make sure your street's catch basin is cleared. The Department of Public Works’ maintenance department is ...

WEBVTT ARE DOING TO KEEP YOU SAFE. AUBRY: OUR INTERVIEW WITH THE CITY JUST WRAPPED UP. THEY ARE WORKING HARD TO ADDRESS THE CATCH BASIN ISSUE, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED BECAUSE THEY SAY THE CATCH ...