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MASSILLON – City Council has unanimously passed legislation that will raise sanitary sewer and stormwater rates for the first time in years. The rate hike is slated to start in January for city ...
City officials are considering raising sanitary sewer and stormwater rates for the first time in years. Massillon considering rate hikes to city's sanitary sewer and stormwater rates Skip to main ...
Massillon officials are debating a sanitary sewer and stormwater rate hike for the first time in years. City Council may vote on the issue next week.
As of 2017, the New Orleans pumping system - operated by the Sewerage and Water Board - can pump water out of the city at a rate of more than 45,000 cubic feet (1,300 m 3) per second. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The capacity is also frequently described as 1 inch (2.5 cm) in the first hour of rainfall followed by 0.5 inches (1.3 cm) per hour afterward. [ 2 ]
Water overtopped and breached the levees along the outfall canals and the Sewerage and Water Board and the Orleans Levee District raised the levees an estimated three feet after those hurricanes. However, some of these levees had subsided by as much as 10 feet (3.0 m) during their nearly 100-year existence.
In the summer of 1955, the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board temporarily drained the Bayou, to clean out debris and material that was causing foul odors. Since then, the Bayou has been a picturesque body of water with small earthen levees on either side, forming a narrow park space in the city.
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A boil water advisory is in place for the East Bank of New Orleans and Algiers Point after a foil balloon hit a power line and briefly caused an outage at a water treatment plant.