Playing Catch-Up: New Orleans Tackles Catch Basin Cleaning and Repair Program

Flooding problems prompt city to take action on catch basin maintenance, even bringing citizens into the effort

Playing Catch-Up: New Orleans Tackles Catch Basin Cleaning and Repair Program

Compliance EnviroSystems cleaned 15,000 catch basins in New Orleans from Sept. 26, 2017 to this past Jan. 23 under an emergency contract.

With 68,000 catch basins in New Orleans, maintaining, cleaning and repairing them is no “big easy.”

But about one-third of those catch basins — 23,000 — have already been cleaned since the beginning of 2017. It is thanks to a detailed plan put forth by the city’s public...

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