Beneficial use of sediment dredged from waterways has become a hot topic along Louisiana’s coast. Hilary Thibodeaux of engineering firm APTIM gave a presentation Monday on the Atchafalaya Long Distance Sediment Pipeline Project to Terrebonne Parish at the Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District Commission meeting. The project is mutually beneficial for Terrebonne Parish and the Port of Morgan City in that Terrebonne wants the sediment to restore its dying marshes, and the port wants to get rid of the sediment causing navigation problems on the Atchafalaya River, Thibodeaux said. The main objective of the project is to slow saltwater ...