Grand Isle Levee District News

Zeta’s Impact on Louisiana Island: ‘Like a Bomb Was Dropped’

Mark Andollina remembers stinging rain and a howling wind that peeled the roof off part of his Cajun Tide Beach Resort on Grand Isle, the Louisiana barrier island town where residents were among the first to feel the ferocity of …

FEMA Denies Request for Levee Repairs in Grand Isle, Louisiana

Grand Isle, La., officials have been met with another setback as they try to determine how to rebuild their first-line storm defense. The town’s levees were torn up again by heavy storms three weeks ago. WVUE reports the Federal Emergency …