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Workers drive steel sheet pilings Thursday afternoon near the Cajun Coast welcome center as part of the Morgan City Levee Improvements Project. The goal of the project is to raise and improve the city’s levees so they can be certified for 100-year storm surge protection and prevent large increases in flood insurance premiums. (The Daily Review/Zachary Fitzgerald)

Morgan City levee work progresses near visitors center

Work continues to progress on the Morgan City Levee Improvements Project. Workers are driving steel pilings near the Cajun Coast welcome center by U.S. 90 and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Officials discussed the project during Thursday’s St. Mary Levee District meeting. St. Mary Parish Consolidated Gravity Drainage District 2 is in charge of the $18 million Morgan City Levee Improvements Project, excluding a section of levees in Siracusaville, to raise and improve the city’s levee system. Project leaders say the ultimate goal is to certify the levees for 100-year storm surge protection and thus prevent property owners from seeing ...

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