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Levee district to take on $1.3M flood protection project

Morgan City is moving ever closer toward having flood protection that will encompass the entire city. The St. Mary Levee District commission met Thursday at the Port of Morgan City’s Government Emergency Operations Center. Commissioners approved the district to spend $131,000 to design, survey and permit a project to drive sheet piles along Justa Street in Morgan City to tie into St. Mary Parish Consolidated Gravity Drainage District 2’s Morgan City Levee Improvements Project. The total cost, including construction, of the Justa Street project is estimated at $1.3 million. With the exception of the front of Lakeside Subdivision, completion of ...

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