Rejuvenating Our Roads
The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO) continually performs routine repairs to the city’s water and sewer pipes that lie below city streets. Once a repair is complete, the utility cut is backfilled temporarily with sand and crushed concrete. The temporary fill in these cuts often erodes, leaving uneven pavement. To make the roads safer for motorists and neighborhood residents and help SWBNO with its backlog, the Department of Public Works invested $6.5 M in Capital Funds to permanently pave 860 open utility cuts across the city.