Curious if your catch basin has been cleaned? There’s a map for that. On Tuesday (Jan. 15), New Orleans officials announced the city has a new map on its website that tracks inspected catch basins and ...

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 massive push to clean New Orleans’ catch basins in the wake of last summer’s floods was spread widely through much of the city's east bank, though not always in the worst-inundated areas, and with a ...

AFFECTING YOU. BUT FIRST, WE’RE GOING TO BEGIN RIGHT NOW WITH A STORY FROM WDSU INVESTIGATES $10 MILLION. BASICALLY UNO. TOUCHED MONEY THAT COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO CLEAN STORM DRAINS AND CATCH BASINS.

>> BOTTOM LINE, WHAT WE ARE LEARNING FROM THE REPORT IS THAT THERE IS STILL AN AWFUL LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE WHEN IT COMES TO CATCH BASINS. THE IG REPORT RELEASED THIS MORNING FOCUSES ON THE EMERGENCY ...

Q. Our home has a catch basin where waste from the kitchen sink and the laundry sink is caught. We clean the basin with water, bleach and lime. The foul odor will not go away. How can we clean the ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - A drainage crisis in the City of New Orleans prompts the emergency cleaning of catch basins across the city. According to our partners at Nola.com|The Times-Picayune, a Kenner ...

NEW ORLEANS -- The city of New Orleans has terminated its $7 million catch basin cleaning contract after the company fell short on several key issues including the amount of basins that could be ...

New Orleans has hit the pause button on its contract to clean thousands of catch basins in the city while it waits for the state Department of Environmental Quality to approve a plan to get rid of the ...