NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - "It looked like an island. We had canoes going back and forth. We even saw a car floating down the street," says Tania Kirn. Tania Kirn says while she knows the pumps weren't ...

WEBVTT BUT THEYNEED THE OUTSIDE CLEAN AND ARELOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS WILLINGTO DO THE WORK.>> YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE YOUCOME OUT, SWEEP THE LEAVE SPEWEDTAMMY: DOZENS OF NEW ORLEANSRESIDENTS LEARNED HOW ...

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 ...

Clark County Public Works is seeking quotes from businesses that can clean privately owned stormwater catch basins as part of the Catch Basin Cleanout Program. The program is designed to make it ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - As another two days of rain is expected, possible flooding concerns creep to the top of the mind for many people living in New Orleans. In July, the city’s Department of Public ...

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 ...

A clean catch basin near the Fairgrounds. Floods this summer revealed that New Orleans’ drainage system hasn’t been working at full capacity. Since then, the city has been scrambling to improve the ...

NEW FROM WDSU INVESTIGATES ONLY 500 CATCH BASINS HAVE BEEN CLEANED OUT IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS THIS YEAR. THERE ARE MORE THAN 70,000 ACROSS NEW ORLEANS. IT COMES DESPITE $10 MILLION EARMARKED BY ...

Mayor LaToya Cantrell's new public works director on Tuesday asked residents to help where they can in keeping catch basins clean and said City Hall has made a dent in the massive backlog of broken ...