INFRASTRUCTURE
New Report — More Cash for Trash: How New Orleans Can Align Sanitation Fees with Service Costs and Protect Ratepayers
October 16, 2026
On October 1, the trash fee on New Orleans water bills went up from $24 to $32.25 a month....
BGR Breakfast Briefing: Keeping Levees First: Who’s Running Our Flood Protection?
October 6, 2026
We don’t have a region without flood protection. After the 2005 levee failures, New Orleanians demanded a new kind...
New Orleans Levee Study Targets 200-Year Storm Protection, Years Away
By Jackie Ramirez-Lopez
Source: Hoodline
September 18, 2026
The Story New Orleans is moving forward with a $3 million study to figure out what it would take...
New Video: What Residents Should Know About Proposed SWBNO Changes
August 28, 2026
New Orleans is considering one of the most significant changes to Sewerage & Water Board governance in the utility’s...BGR Shares Research with Working Group Examining the Future of the Sewerage & Water Board
July 24, 2026
Following major changes approved by the Louisiana Legislature this year, New Orleans leaders are evaluating how the Sewerage &...S&WB Bill Moves Forward. And Hopefully the Planning Process BGR Has Long Called For.
May 8, 2026
On May 7, 2026, House Bill 1243 passed unanimously out of the Senate Local and Municipal Affairs Committee and...
New Report Examines Big Decision Ahead on Drainage Funding
January 8, 2026
The Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) released a new report today examining the Sewerage & Water Board’s effort to develop a...
BGR Examines Nov. 15 Ballot on City Bonds and City Attorney Charter Amendment
October 24, 2025
Today the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) released two reports providing independent, nonpartisan analysis to New Orleans voters on...
BGR Reviews Spending and Impacts of the 2019 New Orleans Bond Authorization
October 20, 2025
Today the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) released Beyond the Ballot: Analyzing Spending and Impacts of the 2019 New...
Here’s how New Orleans’ mayoral candidates would fix the Sewerage and Water Board
By Ben Myers
Source: The Times-Picayune | Nola.com
August 25, 2025
The New Orleans mayoral election comes at a critical juncture for the Sewerage and Water Board, as agency officials...