Since January 2017, 23,337 catch basins have been cleaned across the city of New Orleans. Following the major flooding in August of last year, the Department of Public Works prioritized catch basin cleaning by reassigning its in-house crews to that effort, by urging the Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development (LaDOTD) to clean catch basins on state thoroughfares, and by spending $22M on the emergency catch basin cleaning and repair programs.