Dying infrastructure , New Orleans residents hope the President s new plan can stop use of EMD s
“It’s a symptom of dying infrastructure what we’re seeing right now,” said Melissa Lilly, a board member with the Carrollton-Riverbend Neighborhood Association. Author: Mike McDaniel / Eyewitness News (WWL) Published: 10:43 PM CDT May 6, 2021 Updated: 10:43 PM CDT May 6, 2021
NEW ORLEANS As the President and city leaders made their rounds on the inside of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board’s Carrollton plant, it’s the people who live on the outside, like Johnny Wilson, who hopes federal money can help the city’s failing infrastructure.
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Neighbors of S&WB power plant give superintendent an earful over noise problem
A resident who lives nearby said she was awakened as the machines powered on at 3:45 a.m. and were still running strong hours later. Author: By David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 10:53 PM CST March 11, 2021 Updated: 10:53 PM CST March 11, 2021
NEW ORLEANS The Sewerage & Water Board’s new general superintendent wound up his first full week on the job by acknowledging his agency could have done a better job of informing neighbors about the need to run ear-splitting power equipment in the middle of the night.
“I do understand the inconvenience that the community is going through right now,” Ron Spooner said, addressing a virtual meeting of the Carrollton-Riverbend Neighborhood Association.
The five EMDs produce a combined 12.5 megawatts of 25-cycle power, an old-fashioned low frequency electricity that’s rarely used anywhere in the country, but is needed in New Orleans to power about half of the city’s drainage pumps and parts of the drinking water and sewer systems, too.
The EMDs were purchased in 2017 after a massive failure of the utility’s turbines led to several citywide floods. They were supposed to be backup power to run during big storms in case the main power turbines failed.
But now, those same loud units are the drainage system s primary power source whenever it rains.