(Oakville, like Ironton, was founded by former slaves and retains an exclusively African-American population.) He had “performed a public service” (as his testimony in later court cases would state) by disposing of Katrina debris in his (unpermitted) landfill in the Plaquemines Parish community of Oakville. In 2007, Kennett Stewart, the CEO of Industrial Pipe, found himself flush with cash – a windfall, literally. Parish President Nungesser began implementing a different plan– to turn lower Plaquemines into an “industrial corridor.” With the right types of industry in place, he and the rest of the parish’s power brokers reasoned, the feds would have no choice but to build better flood protection for them.Īlong the river’s southern banks, includingĢ012, following the attention the entire area received in theĪftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill, the Corps announced new plans to
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Army Corps of Engineers’ plans to upgrade and strengthen the levees excluded lower Plaquemines entirely. It wasn’t looking much better downriver in the aftermath of Katrina’s devastation, as the U.S. (And thanks to John Barry’s Rising Tide, first published in 1997, which became a bestseller in the fall of 2005, post-Katrina, readers worldwide knew the ignominious tale, too. Gov.īilly Nungesser knew how his home parish had been treated during the 1927 Mississippi River Flood – sacrificed to more flooding by blowing the levee to protect New Orleans. Parish President Billy Nungesser now serves as Lt. At one point, another part of the tract was leased to a company that attempted to manufacture ethanol, a business that ultimately closed. Rosalie tract, built and started operating a shipping dock and grain elevator on the riverfront. In the late 1960s, CHS, a grain and food co-operative originally founded in Minnesota in 1929, secured a 99-year lease for part of the St. Throughout the 20 th century, much of the land for miles up and downriver, was planted in citrus groves.
Rosalie ultimately wound up in the hands of Louisiana Power and Light – Entergy’s predecessor. Notably, the parish council refused to provide Ironton with either a water or a sewer system until after the revelations hit newsstands and airwaves in 1981. From segregated public parks and hospital waiting rooms to being denied parish government jobs, African Americans in Plaquemines Parish continued to be overtly discriminated against. In the early 1980s, Plaquemines Parish officials earned national notoriety when both Dan Rather with CBS’s 60 Minutes and Walter Isaacson with Time magazine exposed the continued institutionalized racism. Rosalie was acquired by emancipated slaves, eventually becoming the community of Ironton.
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