nola.com A former Sewerage and Water Board employee was booked Thursday (Aug. 3) on charges that he stole more than 1,000 pounds of brass from water meters. Continue Reading
Nola.com Nine more Sewerage and Water Board employees have been implicated in an investigation involving the theft of more than half million dollars worth of brass from the utility system. Continue Reading
The New Orleans Advocate The massive amount of infrastructure work expected in New Orleans in coming years could shake loose lead that will find its way into water pipes, and the Sewerage & Water Board needs to do more to ensure residents are not in danger, according to a new report from the city’s Office...
BuzzFeed News The massive amount of infrastructure work expected in New Orleans in coming years could shake loose lead that will find its way into water pipes, and the Sewerage & Water Board needs to do more to ensure residents are not in danger, according to a new report from the city’s Office of Inspector...
THEADVOCATE.COM Shortly after I became the New Orleans Inspector General, I met with Professor Michael Cowan and Nolan Rollins, former President of the Urban League of New Orleans. They told me that the Office of Inspector General should do “outreach.” In all my years of experience, I had never heard of an OIG doing outreach....
NOLA.COM Ten former employees of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans are being arrested on theft charges after the Office of Inspector General said they stole more than $500,000 in brass fittings from the utility system and sold them at local scrap yards. Continue Reading
THEADVOCATE.COM Ten former employees of the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board are suspected of stealing tens of thousands of pounds of brass fittings from the agency and selling the metal to local scrapyards, city officials said Wednesday, describing a scheme that went undetected for at least two years and cost the city more than...
THEADVOCATE.COM New Orleans’ city government has improved the way it handles insurance on its buildings, but it still is falling short of several changes sought by the city Inspector General’s Office, according to a new report from that office. Continue Reading
THEADVOCATE.COM The New Orleans agency that manages the French Market and other French Quarter real estate earned praise from the Inspector General’s Office on Wednesday for eliminating the middleman in a Bourbon Street property lease — a move that netted the city nearly $180,000 in the new arrangement’s first year. Continue Reading
THEADVOCATE.COM Mayor Mitch Landrieu has proposed doubling the number of traffic cameras in New Orleans next year, a move he says should reduce dangerous driving in school zones and on busy streets. But a report Wednesday from Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux suggests there may be greater threats to pedestrian safety than drivers running red lights....
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