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Justa Street levee project nears start

Work continues to progress on the Morgan City Levee Improvements Project as the St. Mary Levee District prepares to start construction on a roughly $1 million phase of the project to install sheet pilings along Justa Street. The levee district commission met Thursday in Morgan City. The project entails raising and improving levees in the Morgan City area. The goal is to be able to certify the city’s levees for 100-year storm surge flood protection and avoid potentially large increases in flood insurance premiums. Morgan City had appealed its 2008 Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps, which showed large increases ...

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