A group of French Quarter business owners is suing the Sewerage & Water Board, claiming the agency’s nearly 10-month construction project on lower Decatur Street has harmed their businesses and damaged their property.
In documents filed Friday in Orleans Parish Civil District Court, nine business owners say they should be compensated financially due to problems that have resulted from S&WB’s nearly $10 million, federally funded project to replace century-old underground water infrastructure on Decatur between Esplanade Avenue and Dumaine Street.
The work, initially scheduled to wrap up in May, will hit its one-year anniversary in September…