After lots of talk in the past year about starting major dredging projects in the Morgan City area, officials say work will finally be in full swing by the summer. The Port of Morgan City hosted a stakeholder meeting and its regular monthly commission meeting Monday. By September, officials hope to achieve a decent enough water depth to accommodate a lot of vessel traffic from Crewboat Cut south of Morgan City in the Atchafalaya River to the end of the Atchafalaya River Bar Channel, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Sediment accumulation has stifled waterway commerce in the Morgan ...