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The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans says it does not yet know why one of its power turbines exploded over the weekend.The pumps that drain city…
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Last Update 5:00 p.m., July 11, 2019The latest forecasts have Tropical Storm Barry making landfall no longer as a hurricane, but as a tropical storm, just…
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New Orleans got walloped by an intense rainstorm Wednesday that overwhelmed the city drainage system, quickly flooding streets in areas that normally…
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BATON ROUGE-- The House Ways and Means Committee discussed a trio of bills Monday and Tuesday that would give the city of New Orleans more control over...
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After a couple years of billing issues, the Sewerage and Water Board (SWB) said last fall that citizens owed the utility about $23 million dollars. Now,…
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The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans should manage all of the city’s drainage, not just some of it. That’s one of the recommendations in a new…
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The Sewerage and Water Board oversees most of the water and drainage in the city. It’s faced lots of problems in recent years, including the floods in the…
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The New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board has been been in turmoil since major flooding across the city last summer. After several changes in leadership,…
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The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans is getting yet another interim director, and three top officials have resigned from the utility. The moves…
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The flooding of August 5th, 2017 revealed that several pumps, and the generators that power them, were broken. Most of that equipment has now been fixed,…