Neighbors Lament Delayed Water Pipe Repairs

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Tommy Lewis sent in this photo of the water that has been leaking since the first week in February, 2016.
Tommy Lewis sent in this photo of the water that has been leaking since the first week in February, 2016.

Lucia Leggio also said the water main under the corner of North White and Grand Route Saint John has been leaking since the first week in February, 2016 and would like to know when the situation will be repaired.

leakinghydrantCaroline Murphy Christman indicated there is also a fire hydrant that has been leaking on the corner of Desoto and N. Dupre.  She said she contacted the city about it early last week. 

Neighbors are encouraged to call 311 to notify the City of New Orleans about the length of time that the water has been leaking. Folks can also call the Sewerage and Water Board at
Phone: 504-529-2837 | Fax: 504-585-2455 |

or

Joseph Becker, General Superintendent
625 Saint Joseph Street Room 311
New Orleans, LA 70165
Phone: 504-585-2365

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WWL-TV featured this situation in a report two days after this post.  You can see Bill Capo’s report in the link below:

http://www.wwltv.com/videos/news/2016/02/18/grand-route-st-john-waterfront-property/80582152/

gonna-come-a-floodhttps://fsjna.org/2012/05/free-protection/

Before you go to work today (or if you are just coming home) clean the storm drains around your block NOW! Big line of storms coming soon. Gonna come a flood!

More about storm drain cleaning in the links:
https://fsjna.org/2012/03/gonna-come-a-flood/

and

https://fsjna.org/2012/05/free-protection/
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DO IT NOW | Big line of storms coming | Clean the storm drains near your home.
https://fsjna.org/2012/05/free-protection/

CITY REMINDS RESIDENTS OF SAFETY PRECAUTIONS DURING SEVERE WEATHER

Residents Should Call 911 to Report Street Flooding and NOLA311 to Report Malfunctioning Traffic Signals

NEW ORLEANS, LA—In anticipation of severe weather forecasted for the area, the City is reminding residents to monitor weather conditions and stay alert. According to the National Weather Service, heavy rain and storms will affect the area today. Rainfall of 2-4 inches along with wind is expected.

Residents should call the City’s 311 hot line for emergency preparedness information and to report malfunctioning traffic signals. Due to the potentially severe danger that could result from high water, residents should call 911 to report street flooding and life-threatening emergencies.

Residents are advised to stay at home during the severe weather unless an emergency makes it absolutely necessary for them to get on the road. The NOPD will ticket motorists who drive faster than 5 mph on streets with standing water.

The following is a list of streets prone to significant flooding during severe weather.

Calliope @ Claiborne towards Tchoupitoulas St
Calliope & Tchoupitoulas St On-ramps
I-10 and Tulane Exit towards Claiborne
Airline & Tulane Ave intersection
4400 Block of Washington
Washington Ave. near Xavier
All surrounding streets to St. Charles flooded, Gravier/Tulane/S Dupre, S Claiborne/Washington.
Claiborne/Orleans Ave.
S Carrollton/Palmetto
Magazine/St Mary
Broad/Louisiana Ave./S.Claiborne
Josephine/Prytania
Earhart/Jeff Davis-Carrollton
500 blk of Lake Marina
Canal Blvd/I-10/Navarre
Erato/S Genois/City Park/Carrollton
Washington Ave. near Xavier, Washington
Gravier/Tulane/S Dupre
S Claiborne/Washington
Simon Bolivar & Calliope coming from Loyola Ave under the overpass
Poland Ave from St Claude to N. Claiborne
S. Claiborne at Joseph
Holiday to the Crescent City Connection
Shirley and DeGaulle
DeGaulle under the Westbank Expressway
General Meyer from Pace to Shirley
Richland and General Meyer
MacArthur and Holiday
Tullis
Garden Oaks
Chelsea
Vespasian and Wall
The City’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness is monitoring the severe weather and will keep residents updated through e-mail alert and the Twitter handle @nolaready.

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“Thought you would like to know that our front yard did beautifully yesterday!” This message brought to you by the owners of the Broadmoor house that used to get 8″ in their front yard after a hard rain who participated in the #FrontYardInitiative.

The driveway on the left and bioswale on the right now capture and slow water from entering the city’s system. Photo below shows what used to happen after a one-hour 2″ rain (Broadmoor got 5.49″ in a matter of hours on Aug 5.) Evans + Lighter Landscape Architecture Quality Sitework Materials Truegrid Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans. Details about the program in the link:
http://www.urbanconservancy.org/project/fyi/

The Front Yard Initiative is the Urban Conservancy’s response to excessive yard paving. Rampant front yard paving is a community issue that has broad and significant effects on the city of New Orleans from stormwater to safety.

Stormwater management in New Orleans has been characterized by regularly overwhelmed drainage systems, excessive paving and pumping that has depleted groundwater levels and led to a sinking city, and urban water assets being wasted while hidden behind walls, underground, or pumped into the river and lake. All of these issues and the failure of traditional infrastructure (levees, pipes and pumps) to protect the city from Hurricane Katrina, continuous flooding, and subsidence has led to a shift in mindset regarding the most effective and thoughtful way to manage stormwater in South Louisiana. It is clear that the single-minded approach of rushing stromwater over pavement, into pipes and pumping it out of the city needs to be reevaluated.

5 Gallons of Your Time

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tree-graphicKnow everyone is enjoying the wonderful new oak trees put on the banks of the bayou by Jared Zeller and friends. Please consider that each of those trees needs fresh water to continue their trek toward becoming mighty oaks. Bring a gallon of water with you when you go by these trees and put fresh water into the green bags around those trees. The bags slowly release the water to the tree.

Please, fresh water only. The salinity of the water from the bayou is too high.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to bring a gallon of water to the bags around the trees as often as you can!

If everyone brings just one gallon to a tree everyday there will be mighty oaks standing tall along the bayou for years to come!

Thank you for anything you can do!

Where are these trees? Between Dumaine and Lafitte Streets on Moss. The five large oak trees on are the banks of Bayou St. John across from the Post Office. Three are across from the Post Office and two are on the same side of the bayou on the other side of the Orleans Avenue bridge.

$ 50,000 Reward

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Going into its third year, the Water Challenge is expanding its reach in an effort to solidify our region’s position as a business leader in the water industry.

Water Challenge Qualification Criteria

The Water Challenge is a three-phase program. Applicants who meet the following criteria will be invited to participate in an educational program from October through December.
• Entrepreneur has an idea or business that addresses a specific water problem relevant to Southeast Louisiana
• Entrepreneur has identified an idea that can be commercialized
• The proposed solution/ idea is exportable and scalable
• Entrepreneur and venture are taking an innovative approach to solving this problem
• Entrepreneur is committed to participating in the educational and consulting program
• Entrepreneur and business are based in the Coastal 5 plus 1 region, which includes the following parishes:
Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John, St. Tammany, & Terrebonne
• The business is generating less than $1 million in annual revenue and has fewer than 10 full time employees

In December, select entrepreneurs from the educational program who have identified scalable, for-profit business models and demonstrated the passion to take their start-ups to the next level will transition into a three-month accelerator program managed by The Idea Village Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs). The EIRs, seasoned entrepreneurs, will provide strategic consulting to help entrepreneurs refine their strategy, organize their business, and develop their pitch for funding. Finalists will have the opportunity to pitch for a $50,000 grant, courtesy of GNOF, during New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, March 16-22, 2013.

Dr. Sarah K. Mack of Tierra Resources won the 2012 Water Challenge. Tierra Resources is a nationally recognized innovator and quality leader in the research, development, and monetization of blue carbon contained in coastal wetland ecosystems, such as estuaries, mangroves, and salt marshes. Their pioneering work is critical to bringing wetland offsets to carbon markets and their methodology will monetize the value of Louisiana wetlands and enable funding for their restoration.

The inaugural Water Challenge winner, David Culpepper of NanoFex, has developed a product that decontaminates groundwater polluted by industrial solvents using natural, regional by-products.

City Takes Action

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Thanks to neighbors for their requests for action!


And thanks to City officials who took action after the situation was posted here:
https://fsjna.org/2012/05/up-comes-a-bubbling-crude/

Thanks to neighbors for their requests for action!


And thanks to City officials who took action after the situation was posted here:
https://fsjna.org/2012/06/rotten-pole-languishes/

Up Comes a Bubbling Crude

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Neighbors have complained for months about the beautiful fresh water that’s been literally going down the drain near the intersection of Ponce de Leon and Vignaud in Faubourg St. John.

Today there is a new development! The water broke through the pavement this morning. One can see from the amount of algae that water has been leaking here for quite a while.

The problem is located at 3247 Ponce de Leon near the intersection of Vignaud Street in Faubourg St. John.

Faubourg St. John Water Meter?

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Faubourg St. John Water Meter? No, but it sure looks like one! Check out this potholder at this Saturday’s Arts Market in Palmer Park (Carrollton at Claiborne) They are $22 each.

Tracy Thomson is a local hat and costume designer. 20 years ago as she was walking in The Quarter, she had the idea to make a rubbing of the Water Meter cover to put on the top of a hat, and then to make kitchen potholders. They are decorative and functional, with three layers of batting inside, and canvas on the outsides. She cuts and makes fabric strips to sew around the edges.

Several years ago Ms. Thomson had another idea; to make her own complete font of the water meter letters; she created an entire alphabet from A to Z, and then spelled out a few different neighborhoods. She remembers that the first was BYWATER, her own neighborhood. Others followed, as she did festivals and markets in different neighborhoods.

Check out Ms. Thomson’s work atwww.kabukihats.com
kabuki hats on Facebook

Grant for Safe Water

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sent in by Dean Burridge
EPA Awards Over $470,000 to Provide Safe, Reliable Drinking Water to Louisiana Residents
Release Date: 01/25/2012
Contact Information: Dave Bary or Jennah Durant at 214-665-2200 or r6press@epa.gov

(DALLAS – January 25, 2012) A new grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will help provide safe, reliable drinking water to the people of Louisiana. The grant for $474,382, given to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (LDHH), will be used to manage the state’s drinking water program. These activities include attaining and maintaining safe drinking water quality standards, supporting the state’s public drinking water systems, and compliance, enforcement and technical assistance.

Additional information on EPA grants: http://www.epa.gov/region6/gandf/index.htm

More about activities in EPA Region 6: http://www.epa.gov/region6

EPA audio file is available at http://www.epa.gov/region6/6xa/podcast/jan2012.html

SCAVENGER HUNT SATURDAY!

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September 10, 2011 – Scavenger Hunt for Re-Bridge
9:00 am

Contact and Reservations
Phone 985-778-5034 or 512-964-9499

Kayakitiyat is sponsoring a scavenger hunt to benefit Re-Bridge. If you’re not yet familiar, Re-Bridge is an organization put together by the Faubourg St John Neighborhood Association. Their goal is to restore and rehabilitate the Magnolia Bridge (a.k.a. Cabrini footbridge) and the Dumaine Bridge. So, let’s get down to the nitty gritty…

All you competitive brainiacs, get your team together! You’ll be scavenging for clues by boat and bike in Bayou St John, City Park and parts of Faubourg St John and Mid-City. It’s $100 a team with a maximum of 4 team members.

The race starts at 9:30 sharp, so meet us on the bank of Bayou St John near Dumaine no later than 9am on Saturday, September 10th. The hunt ends at 1:30 on the back deck of Bayou Beer Garden. No doubt, Fiona and Dean know how to throw a mean party!

Pre-registry available now at rebridge.org.

Your energy, enthusiasm and sweat are needed for the day of the event. If you want to help us keep these scavengers in line, let us know. We need people!

Email us at kayakitiyat@yahoo.com

Fine Print:
Children under 14 are welcome but will not count as team members.
A limited amount of boat and bike rentals will be available for $10.
Bring your own if you can!

Bayou St. John Gets High

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iPhone photos by Charlie London

Some of you may be responding to the heading of this post wondering if there was a big party recently somewhere in the neighborhood.

No, this post is about the water level in the bayou. Consistent rain from Tropical Storm Lee has added a bit to the water level in Bayou St. John but not enough to cause the bayou to overtop its banks.

The photos above were taken near the Magnolia Bridge at 8:15 a.m. on September 3rd, 2011.