Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who serves as president of the Sewerage & Water Board, said as the circumstances around the boil water advisory are studied, it's likely to arrive at a key question: Should the utility should continue to rely on its self-generated power for the city's drinking water, drainage and sewer system, or should it turn entirely to Entergy for its electricity?They aren't there yet. But you have to wonder if that isn't where they're trying to go given the way they talk about S&WB's current set up.
If it's determined that the Sewerage & Water Board should overhaul its outdated power station, "it's the equivalent of building a new Superdome," the mayor said, in terms of scope and cost.
"One of the turbines was purchased during Calvin Coolidge's presidency," Rainwater says of power system age. (Coolidge in office 1923–1929)— Danny Monteverde (@DCMonteverde) September 21, 2017
Ewww, it's old and expensive. Usually that's followed pretty soon with, "Let's sell it off so somebody can run it like an innovative business." The latest boil order (the twelfth such event now of the Boil Decade) only contributes to the sense of systemic failure that customarily enables the Shock Doctrine response. Like I said, I don't think they're there yet. But they might move in that direction. It's a tendency of the mayor's natural policy compass.
Anyway, I'm not sure what this has to do with the question of what is and is not technically a fire, but I'll bet it's something.
So that turbine "fire" at the S&WB plant more than a month ago? Turns out there was none, according to S&WB. Just another misspeak, I guess. pic.twitter.com/c1Z67R3RTU— Danny Monteverde (@DCMonteverde) September 20, 2017
Landrieu, in an irritated tone, makes sure people -- mainly the media -- know turbine 4 did, in fact, catch fire. (It did.)— Danny Monteverde (@DCMonteverde) September 21, 2017
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