Iberville Parish Council and the Iberville Department of Toursim will be hosting the 2nd annual Swamp Life Expo with special appearance by Ricky Phillips who was featured on the Discovery Channel series "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe and has appeared on the History Channel series "Swamp Series".

Date: Saturday, October 1, 2011

Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm

Place: Iberville Parish Visitor's Center at I-10 in Grosse Tete


Please Click Here for the full line-up of activites.


For more information, please contact (225) 687-5198 or visit us on the web at www.visitiberville.com

A sand-bagging machine that produces 25 to 30 sandbags per minute is now available. Parish President J. Mitchell Ourso said the governor’s declaration of a state- of-emergency in May due to the high water in the Mississippi
River gave him the authority to make the emergency purchase of the $60,000 piece of equipment.

Ourso said it would normally take 50 to 60 prison inmates to make 30 sandbags per minute, and the parish had to pay for their meals and security. “This equipment
is faster, more reliable and safer for the community,” he noted. “The parish routinely
supplies sandbags to the municipalities in the parish, so this equipment will help all
Iberville residents,” he noted.

Ourso told the Iberville Parish Council that having access to inmates at the two
prisons in Iberville to bag sandbags has allowed the parish to spoil parish residents
by providing prepared sandbags in strategic pick-up points during threats of
flooding. “In other parishes, they provide a pile of sand and the bags, and residents
are expected to bag it themselves,” he said. “I was able to see this machine in action
in West Baton Rouge during the high water emergency, and I was very impressed.
It will allow us to continue providing this service here more cost effectively.”