On the same day Randy Schuler was appointed director of Jefferson Parish's water department in December 1991, the Parish Council raised water rates a couple of dollars a month.

A back-up sewer pump deployed by Jefferson Parish's Sewerage Department is shown here at West Metairie and Pasadena avenues in Metairie, La., on Sept. 5, 2021.

Jefferson Parish officials are asking residents to reduce their water usage following recent rain ... The parish’s sewerage network includes more than 500 lift stations and over 1,800 pumps that ...

The Jefferson Parish sewer system is once again working at full capacity.Parish leaders announced the system began to experience issues as Hurricane Francine made landfall Wednesday.As a result, ...

Jefferson Parish officials are asking residents to reduce their water usage following recent rain ... The parish’s sewerage network includes more than 500 lift stations and over 1,800 pumps that ...

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Utility bills in Jefferson Parish are set to increase January 1, 2024. In 2021, the Jefferson Parish Council adopted a 20-year rate increase to improve sewer and water ...

The new taxes will be collected for 10 years starting in 2023. Jefferson Parish previously had a 5-mill maximum for water and sewer millages for decades until 2013, when voters rejected their renewal.

The campaign to reject the renewal of tolls on the CrescentCity Connection in the May elections was so effective that it also killed the renewal of two property taxes meant to support water and sewage ...

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — In parts of Jefferson Parish, the consequences of the nearly yearlong drought are increasingly apparent. Councilman for District 2, Deano Bonano, said he's noticed it at ...

Jefferson Parish has over 500 lift stations and more than 1,800 pumps in its system to keep the system down, and while crews are reportedly working to find and address sewer backups, they will be ...

Jefferson Parish is poised to begin $58.9 million in road-repair projects, funded primarily by bonds issued after voters renewed a 7/8-cent sales tax a year ago.