New Orleans City Council members on Tuesday demanded that Sewerage and Water Board leaders move faster to address repeated water main breaks, which have rattled residents after a series of neighborhood floods and boil water advisories over the last three months.
During a meeting of the council’s Public Works Committee, Councilmember Jason Hughes, the committee chair, and other members sought answers from Executive Director Randy Hayman and his lieutenants on the reasons for the recent breaks and how they planned to fix it.
They pointed to smaller leaks across the city that they said have been reported weeks ago with little noticeable progress in fixing them, and passed along residents’ fears that more disruptions could be ahead…