According to the city's Department of Public Works, as of July crews have cleaned 5,055 catch basins and flushed more than 7,000 linear feet of drain lines.

Councilman Giarrusso says there's 72,000 catch basins across the city, but less than 4,000 of them have been cleaned over the last two years. Now he's calling for the catch basins to be cleaned ASAP.

Engineer tells task force catch basin responsibility should move from city to S&WB Catch basin cleaning currently falls to the Department of Public Works. The API failed to deliver the resource.