Flooding has been a constant concern of residents of Bois Brule Bottom since settlement began . Under French and Spanish colonial administration , each settler was required to build and maintain levees on his land . Significant number of floods occurred throughout the 1800s and 1900s , but the Great Flood of 1993 devastated the Bois Brule Bottom . Most of the communities failed to recover
Great Flood of 1993
Great Flood of 1993
Bois Brule Bottom