It Cuts My Heart.

It kills me to cut this stuff from the essays I am working on now. I love this stuff, but it just bogs everything down. Not everyone is as fascinated by the ins-and-outs-and-interconnections the way I am. I know this because I am the only person I know who doesn’t feel the urge to doublecheck what I think I know. I already know.

It is officially called Sewerage & Water Board New Orleans, or SWBNO. Its executive director is a well-intentioned fellow who is not originally from New Orleans. He and those who report directly to him are the only ones who use the SWBNO abbreviation. Everyone else writes it S&WB for short. The B, like the board itself, is usually silent.

Nobody from New Orleans has the resident expertise to run S&WB. That is why Ghassan Korban was hired. He knows his sewerage and water.

S&WB operates 1600 miles of sewer pipes on both banks of the Mississippi River. It is a gravity collection system consisting of lateral and trunk sewers connected to 83 electrically operated pumping and lifting systems. 79 of these stations operate automatically, unmanned. That makes for less inputs for the system to process.

This is getting too juicy to continue on this side of the paywall.