Grass-clogged catch basins and lack of public oversight were among drainage-related concerns voiced by New Orleans residents Thursday night (Aug. 17), during a town hall meeting in response to the ...

In the analogy, water flows from streets to smaller lateral lines via catch basins. Those smaller drainage lines are like roads that lead to larger drainage lines (highways), which bring water to ...

Starting Jan. 1, 2025, New Orleans’ Sewerage and Water Board will officially take over catch basin maintenance, with hopes to improve drainage and address chronic flooding issues.

Maintaining the city’s 75,000 catch basins and 1.5 million linear feet of connecting drainage pipes will not come cheap. City officials estimate the annual cost at approximately $10 million ...

A yard drain is another term for a catch basin or collection basin. These concrete or plastic basins channel water from your yard into a larger drainage system underground.

"Catch basins are essential parts of the city’s drainage infrastructure, allowing rain to drain from streets and be conveyed to the city’s sewer system," according to Jimmy Zammar, Director of ...

Adventurous people can happen upon catch basins full of blue-green water as a result of millions of cubic meters of water pumped out of Eesti Energia mines. Kalmer Sokman, head of environment for ...

When the C&E tax expired after 50 years in 1992, there was no legal way for the S&WB to continue any work on catch basins or the subsurface drainage system. LAWRENCE FEDERICO retired as budget ...