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Officials in Maryland say a 13-year-old boy died after getting trapped in a storm drain during heavy rainfall and flooding on ...
The first involved installing 1,645 feet of piping, 10 manholes and 4 catch basins and replacing the existing catch basins and manholes. This would decrease the runoff entering the trunkline between ...
As New Orleans prepares for the risk of flooding from a tropical disturbance, officials urge residents to clear their catch basins.
See how wildlife and public works officials helped free a trapped black bear from a storm drain in Colorado Springs’ Ivywild neighborhood.
A trapped black bear wriggled himself free from a storm drain in a Colorado neighborhood — with a little help from public works and wildlife officials, video shows. It happened Thursday, July 10 ...
After seeing a mama duck behaving unusually near a storm drain, a family pulled over and discovered her babies were trapped. Then, they worked to free them and reunite them with their mom.
Eight ducklings were successfully rescued from a storm sewer after they fell into the drain Friday in Westland.
A vandal — or a group of people — has been lifting heavy, iron storm sewer grates and tossing them into catch basins, creating dangerous holes for people who are walking, biking or driving.
According to the city, more than 150 catch basins have had their grates removed and then dropped into the storm drain.
ST PAUL, Minn. — The City of St. Paul is asking residents to keep an eye on neighborhood storm drains after more than 100 of them have been removed over the month of June.
Vandals have removed more than 150 storm sewer grates from St. Paul streets since early June. The city issued a release Friday about what it calls "unusual and repeated vandalism of storm sewer drains ...
More than 150 storm drain grates around St. Paul have been removed by vandals, according to the city’s Public Works Department. Those responsible are removing the heavy iron grates and then ...