The vacuum trucks are essential tools used to get a decade’s worth of debris, out of the catch basins. In the days after the August 5 flood, when the city hobbled along with just 2 working ...

Catch basins are not to be used for any type of trash disposal. Unfortunately, we have seen people stuff cans and bottles in these basins as well as grass clippings and leaves.

That effort continues in 2021 with the annual catch basin project -- including 118 catch basins at a cost of $509,998 -- set to begin in the next couple of weeks.

The NEORSD funds will also target stormwater improvements with additional catch basins and headwall repairs for a $127,000 project on Lourdes Drive.

New catch basins, sewers and more: $102M infrastructure projects completed in South Beach to reduce flooding Published: Aug. 31, 2021, 6:30 a.m.