There is absolutely no reason for Sewerage and Water Board to be adding areas like this so long after a break. They have tons of water pressure data at the moment the break happened from their new smart meter system. Whether they know how to extract that data in timely fashion ...

The passage below is a quote from the S&WB press release for today's South Claiborne water main break. What is strange is that S&WB appears to have gotten the size of the main wrong. Drawings for the project that replaced a portion of the same main 100 feet downstream show it is a 48" main, not 30".

The break appears to be just upstream of Louisiana Ave. The S&WB installed a new 48" water main from the downstream side of Louisiana down to 3rd St, so this break appears to be outside the scope of the $12 million project (which went six months long and incurred $800,000 in change orders).

"Put the city back together in the era of Reconstruction" He thinks the city was ruined under Union occupation during the Civil War?

Arresting journalists is so far over the line, the line isn't even a dot. It's just cosmic background radiation.

Likely far more impactful would be a possible conversion of the seven-block long warehouse on Tchoup betw Louisiana and General Taylor from cargo handling to mixed retail. Unclear if their latest tenant would stay. That tenant? U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who moved in last year.

One wonders if Denmark will even let him in with statements like this.

Are posts from @profcarlnivale.bsky.social allowed before Jan. 6, or is that like king cake?

Fun fact: the parking lot to the left is where the failed Trump Tower New Orleans was supposed to go. The project never got past the concept stage. The site was foreclosed on and auctioned off in 2011 for $6.5 million. Also, this is the CBD, not the French Quarter.

Screenshots from the Sewerage & Water Board website currently, showing major rain moving into New Orleans right now and a week-old status of their pumping and power.

Even with heavy rain already moving into the area, the last update on the status of pumps and power at Sewerage and Water Board website is dated 11/26/25, over a week ago. (1/5) www.swbno.org/Projects/Pum...

NBC affiliate WCNC out of Charlotte reported this morning the start of the Border Patrol operation in New Orleans has been delayed into later this week. No specific date was given for the revised start. Link below.

@helenamorenola.com just said at the State Bond Commission that she anticipates coming back in a few months for another short term revenue anticipation bond, though she does not expect it to be as large as the one being considered today ($125 million).

"Neutral ground parking allowed" message from nolaready issued after severe thunderstorm was already on top of New Orleans, and just minutes prior to flash flood warning. This happens so, so often.

No real reason to worry about drainage by S&WB pumps and power assets, especially when the last update - two days ago - said they were mainly relying on hugely unreliable T4, EMDs and frequency changers.

Over $300 million spent by Sewerage & Water Board to supposedly make New Orleans' drainage pump power more reliable, but since a rainstorm is coming in during non-business hours, the most the public finds out is "It's off," on Friday afternoon. Then radio silence.

This is the exact opposite of why the S&WB power complex was put in. There's bad weather moving into New Orleans this weekend, the complex ("SFC1"= new Static Frequency Converter 1) is offline during its "reliability test," rickety T4 has been turned on, and T5 remains down.

If the City of New Orleans is having to take out a $100 million line of credit because, in part, FEMA reimbursements have slowed or stopped, @nolacitycouncil.bsky.social might want to ask Sewerage & Water Board how their FEMA reimbursements are going (1/x) bsky.app/profile/wwlt...

The Sewerage & Water Board power complex is now online. They barely announced it in a tiny note on their power dashboard yesterday: "[We] have another 22MW of [25 cycle] power from SFC1 that is being used as part of a 30-day reliability testing period." (1/6)

Portland at war

The S&WB said this nearly 3 weeks ago. It was in their September 2, 2025 press release: www.swbno.org/PressRelease...

THIS right here is the ONLY video you need to watch to understand the recovery of New Orleans post-Katrina. youtu.be/UOGlLehx7sg?...

Katrina is going to be everywhere this week, with lots of people offering their takes on things. I'm going to stay in my lane and ask: What about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers? (1/x)

Pressing "Cancel" on your Microsoft 365 subscription reveals a version with no AI ("Classic" is what they call it) which is $10 cheaper.

Heads up @nolautilities.bsky.social @nolacitycouncil.bsky.social @jpmorrell.bsky.social @helenamorenola.com Loss of T5, hours-long T4 startups, & ongoing West Power Complex delays mean S&WB water and drainage is mostly being run off @entergy.com distribution power. Bigger risks during popup storms.

Turbine 5 (T5) at the Sewerage & Water Board Carrollton Plant was declared down yesterday for at least two weeks at the height of hurricane season, which is very bad for drainage. The outage also puts the city's water system at higher risk, which S&WB did not mention. (1/x)

Reminder: Sewerage & Water Board claimed to @nolacitycouncil.bsky.social on July 21 they would start their 30 day reliability test of delivering Entergy power through their new power complex (specifically through static frequency converter 1, or "SFC-1") to pumps in "mid August." That's now.

The sections of the New Orleans City Charter related to a mayor either pleading guilty to federal or state felony charges, or being found guilty. library.municode.com/la/new_orlea...

On their third try today, S&WB finally matched their pumping and power dashboard to the information about pumping and power told by S&WB leadership to the @nolacitycouncil.bsky.social (1/4)

BREAKING: It seems S&WB is discovering pumps down even since this morning. Their available pump total is now down to 84 of 93, with the announcement by Gen'l Superintendent Steve Nelson at the @nolacitycouncil.bsky.social meeting that Pump F at drainage pumping station 1 in Broadmoor is down. (1/9)

Very soon after I posted this thread, S&WB updated their pumping dashboard, but with a backdated update. They put a date of 7/18/25 as if it has been there the whole time, but it only went up a few minutes ago. (1/2)

S&WB will be presenting to @nolacitycouncil.bsky.social today. Their slide deck has changed in a tiny but vital way - it reveals that drainage capacity in most of Algiers is now down to half. (1/15)🧵

Finally, S&WB has treated its customer base with respect and put out a ton of information about their systems ahead of tonight's rain. But it's doubtful most people will see it today, so I will hit the highlights. (1/22)🧵

Last Friday, S&WB announced that startup of the first component of the new power complex, static frequency converter 1 ("SFC-1") was being pushed back to August. Also, the other two SFC's were delayed to Oct and new turbine T7 to Nov. I wrote about it that day. (1/13) x.com/Matthew67052...

And this: thelensnola.org/2025/07/11/m...

Many thanks to @thelensnola.bsky.social for publishing my latest piece, in which I detail how a former S&WB member with a raft of state ethics violations - and an uncle on the U.S. Supreme Court - nearly got back on to S&WB yesterday, and still might. thelensnola.org/2025/07/11/m...

It appears S&WB took notice of the public concern about Turbine 6 today. They slightly updated their power dashboard, providing a supposed date for the turbine's return to service: July 25. But there's still lots of questions. (1/4)

The New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board's history with turbines placed into "Emergency Use Only" status is not encouraging. If we go back to 2020, we have a salient example in the death of turbine 3. (1/10) 🧵

The recent apparent failure of S&WB turbine 6 is more consequential than I realized. It's actually quite bad, and as usual S&WB is downplaying it. It gets one tiny mention on their website, with no explanation. I guarantee this problem did not come out of nowhere. (1/20)

Sewerage & Water Board is limping thru this hurricane season. TWO of their three turbines are now down to "emergency use only," or "EUO" in SWB-ese. Turbine 4 "returned" to service June 27, but it didn't really. One has to dig into the S&WB website to find it was designated EUO:🧵 (1/15)

@alexlubben.bsky.social Can you please provide a link - within the text of your @nolanews.bsky.social article and here - to the source article from Tulane and JPL about the Corps' post-K levees subsiding at an accelerated rate? I went looking for it and couldn't find it. www.nola.com/news/environ...

@SWBNewOrleans has left a key bit of information out of this: T4 is not truly "available" since it takes hours to start up. S&WB has also not told the public why that is, and when that new weakness started. If one takes out T4's 18.5 MW, actual available 25 Hz power is 49 MW.

However, if one swaps out "snowstorm" for "Super Bowl," it works. He was off by two weeks.

Heads up: S&WB power and drainage are heading for critical levels: - 25 Hz power: 43 MW available (44 needed for peak). 4 of 13 power assets out. - 27% pumping deficit at station 4 in Gentilly - very serious - 28% pumping deficit at station 19 in Upper 9th Ward Details here: x.com/Matthew67052...

Are we sure the LEO isn't guarding against foodborne disease by ensuring meat is fully cooked?

If S&WB keeps their pumping dashboard website the same after T4 returns, it is totally conceivable that they could lose T5 or a bunch of other equipment but continue to claim adequate power because they were inflating the total with T4. They need to break out T4 separately from the total.

S&WB turbine 4 is down, dropping "available" 25 Hz power by 18 MW to 49 megawatts. They say they need max 44 MW for worst storms. The supposed return to service is 6/16/25. That said, after the 4/21 storm, S&WB revealed they need "several hours" to get T4 going. (1/15)🧵 x.com/SWBNewOrlean...

Deporting a 4 year old girl with short bowel syndrome and her family is just plain cruel. www.latimes.com/california/s...

#lalege bill HB611 from Rep Hilferty to completely recast the S&WB board, including eliminating the mayor from the board, has had most of the language stripped out of it under an amendment filed by Rep. Hilferty. It retains some language about S&WB's top lawyer. (1/5)