If New Orleans city officials were serious about keeping our catch basins clear, the first move they'd make would be to pass an ordinance that forbids the Mardi Gras krewes from throwing plastic ...

New Orleans officials have terminated the city's emergency catch basin cleaning contract with RAMJ Construction after the company was unable to meet state guidelines for dumping waste.

In New Orleans, clean-up crews have found 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads in the catch basins on St. Charles Avenue between Poydras Street and Lee Circle. These festive plastic staples were clogging ...

“We're the largest manufacturer and seller of plastic catch basins. We also do plastic channel drains, a drip irrigation line, and we have a flow management company — Flo Control is the brand ...

Most, about 180, are catch basins. Highway crews erect warnings for the worst of them. “The road hazards are covered, or otherwise protected by cones, traffic barrels, plastic water barriers or ...

This weekend three of six Critical Catch containers were installed at strategic waterfront locations: the Basin of Lock 45, ...

A project that helps prevent plastic pollution from entering Lake ... includes installing LittaTraps — cutting-edge catch basin filters — in storm drains across the city.

"So we've got to do better." Since late September, crews working under a $7 million emergency contract have flushed out 15,000 clogged catch basins - nearly one-fourth of the city's full roster of ...