JAY — Selectpersons agreed Monday to have about 200 town-owned catch basins cleaned, the scales at the Transfer Station fixed and four sewer pump stations upgraded.

At that rate, it would take nearly 16 years to clean all 68,000 of the city’s catch basins. Environmental Protection Agency guidelines encourage the cleaning of catch basins every year and a half.

New Orleans city officials held a training event over the weekend to teach people how to clean catch basins ahead of several cleanup days through November.The training is part of an effort to get ...

Joe Johnston [email protected] The city of San Luis Obispo wants to pump groundwater again — but first it must clean up decades-old chemical pollution detected within the basin.