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 ...