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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 ...

Bellevue officials now say a 4-foot-high flood of stormwater and motor oil in Factoria earlier this month cannot be blamed on storm-drain filters, contradicting what a city spokeswoman first said.

The city will begin installing 97 catch basin filters in storm drains today to reduce the amount of heavy metals, petroleum products and bacteria entering ocean waters, officials said. Public works ...

This article is brought to you by the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans. At the start of 2025, the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO) officially became responsible for the city’s ...

NORWALK -- Between 2004 and 2009, filters installed in 275 SoNo catch basins prevented tons of debris and pollutants from entering Norwalk Harbor, according to Director of Public Works Harold F.

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 ...

A stewardship group in Sudbury, Ont., has installed eight catch basin filters on local waterways that have collected 31 kilograms of garbage so far. A catch basin consists of a grate and a drainage ...