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 works department, which ratcheted up last August after major flooding issues in the gulf city. Following the flooding, the city council approved a $22 million Emergency Catch Basin Cleaning & Repair Program — with $7 million used for cleaning and the remaining amount for repairs, according to Dani Galloway, interim director of the
