After several days of statements and information, then new statements and updated information, several New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board officials have stepped down or face firings after ...

NEW ORLEANS — Turbine 5, one of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board's ancient power generators, is already running in advance of this week's expected heavy rains. "It can take 30-40 minutes to ...

Breaches in three levees and retaining walls caused most of the flooding in New Orleans. NPR's Greg Allen visited the 17th Street Canal today, where the floodwaters are finally under control. This is ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Officials with the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board have released the status of the pumps around the city ahead of anticipated inclement weather. SWBNO officials say they are ...

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board's new $300 million power complex would not be available to support the city's drainage pumps if a major storm struck this week. The utility ...

NUMBER. BUT AGAIN, IT IS A WDSU FIRST WARNING WEATHER IMPACT DAY. LET’S CHECK OUT THOSE STORMS RIGHT NOW WITH JIM SIMON. WELL, THEY’RE MOVING VERY, VERY SLOWLY, VERY MUCH LIKE YESTERDAY TO THE ...

Work to repair corroding pumps that serve as vital cogs in New Orleans’ hurricane protection system has been boosted by a settlement between the Army Corps of Engineers and the companies it contracted ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — In an email sent to WGNO at 9 p.m. Monday, Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans spokesperson Grace Birch reported that the power outage that led to the flooding lasted just ...

New Orleans was spared another major test of its fragile drainage system Tuesday, dodging the worst of the rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey as the storm churned off the Texas coast after dropping ...

I recently purchased a home in Lakeview that has a downstairs living quarters. On Sept. 11, it went underwater. Despite what the Sewerage & Water Board might say, water remained on the streets until 4 ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Army Corps of Engineers, rushing to meet President Bush’s promise to protect New Orleans by the start of the 2006 hurricane season, installed defective flood-control pumps last year ...