NEW ORLEANS — With another named storm barreling toward New Orleans, the city’s antiquated drainage system is once again missing a main power generator for running the drainage pumps. Turbine 4, a 100 ...

The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans has provided an update on pumps and turbines ahead of Hurricane Delta. According to the S&WB, currently, 98 of 99 drainage pumps are available for service.

NEW ORLEANS — The Sewerage & Water Board on Tuesday said it recently discovered that for the last century, it has used clean drinking water to cool its steam-powered turbines, then returned the ...

A HEYFIELD inventor, Fred Sundermann, has had his innovative turbine water pump worth tens of thousands of dollars, stolen from his property. The turbine is being assessed by Southern Rural Water and ...

A consultant found 17 Sewerage & Water Board pumps and two power turbines out of service last May, months before heavy rains in July and August caused widespread flooding in New Orleans. Outlined in a ...