ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES - When she was a girl, Theresa “Betty” Billiot would open the back door to a view of cattle grazing in pastures, cotton fields and wild
Isle de Jean Charles, a barrier island located in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, where the Mississippi River opens to the Gulf of Mexico, was once a thriving town.
Isle de Jean Charles Community Members Moved into the First Federally Funded Resettlement Project in Louisiana Despite Visible Engineering Issues desmog.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from desmog.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
After more than six years since receiving funding and construction marred with delays, less than half of the Isle de Jean Charles residents were finally allowed to move into their new homes Wednesday morning through the Isle de Jean Charles resettlement program, a project spurred by extreme land loss.
Members of the local Choctaw tribe moved from Isle de Jean Charles in Terrebonne Parish into an enclave of about two dozen homes – so far – about 40 miles away in Gray.