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Water barges and salt-filtering reverse osmosis units will not be enough to prevent saltwater from contaminating New Orleans’ largest water facility, officials said at city council meeting on Wednesday. Instead, a pipeline will be needed to deliver freshwater from upstream — not just for New Orleans, but likely for neighboring Jefferson Parish, too.
At least half a dozen times this year, dime-size droplets from the Sewerage & Water Board plant on Carrollton have covered vehicles, steps, lawn furniture, and siding on houses. In recent years, neighbors have dealt with a turbine explosion that shook houses and shattered windows, as well as five trailer-size emergency generators so loud that – for two years – people couldn’t hear routine conversations even inside their houses.
New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board leaders responded to allegations that a "sex room" existed in the Carrollton Plant run by the board.
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Some areas received nearly 5.7 inches of rain in about two hours
Neighbors first complained about the oily residue falling on their property in 2013 and got no answers.