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 ...

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 ...

PARMA, Ohio -- An important part of the mosaic that is the stormwater system starts at the surface level with catch basins. That’s why Parma for the last four years has fixed roughly 600 out of the ...

Clean your catch basins, New Orleans city officials are urging as Tropical Storm Harvey spins toward the Texas coast, with the potential of bringing significant rainfall to Southeast Louisiana this ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Rudolph Dupart tried for years to get the city to fix a catch basin near his 7th Ward home. The repairs were finally made -- but only after police hauled a dead body out of it a few ...

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 city's Public Works department is beginning an effort to clean and repair about 15,000 catch basins, about one-quarter of the citywide total. City officials announced the plan last week, as well ...

I HAVE REACHED OUT TO KNOW SEVERAL SEWERAGE AND WATER BOARD, AS WELL AS ENTERGY, AND THEY ALL TELL US THAT THEY ARE CURRENTLY JUST CLOSELY MONITORING THE SYSTEM AHEAD OF WHAT’S TO COME IN MAKING THOSE ...