Port of Morgan City leaders continue a strong push advocating for use of fertile sand dredged from the area’s waterways to restore parts of Louisiana’s coast. Area officials have sent information to Terrebonne Parish and Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority leaders showing the formation of land created by river sand along the Atchafalaya River. The goal for the Port of Morgan City is to be able to send material dredged from the river to restore Terrebonne Parish’s marshes. Dredge material is currently pumped right back into the river, which makes no sense, said Joe Cain, president of the Morgan ...