08-22-2020, 04:27 PM
Sewerage and Water Board. They operate and maintain the pumps that drain the city, but are notorious for, amongst other things: having terribly outdated equipment that doesn't work half the time, resulting in streets flooding even just with a thunderstorm; failing to announce to residents with sufficient notice of water outages or boil advisories; having malfunctioning software for which they spent millions of dollars, which ends up giving residents outrageous and completely inaccurate bills (some over $20,000); and being a literal cesspool of corruption, graft, and incompetence. Oh, and did I forget to mention their involvement in/failure during Katrina? Unfortunately, they're also outside the purview of government; they exist as pretty much a separate entity such that the city council has really no control over them.