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 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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Equan Anderson was filled with joy after he graduated from the Louisiana Green Corps on Friday (May 31). Anderson, 28, said the job training program Green Corps taught him to be ...

NEW ORLEANS — City Councilman Joe Giarrusso says a very few of the city's catch basins have been cleaned. He says after the weekend's rain event he wants to see many of the clogged catch basins ...

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 ...

DWSD says improvements are part of a broader effort to reduce flooding and basement backups across the city.