Port will put dredging funds to work
Dredging takes place in the Crew boat Cut section of the Atchafalaya River during April
By ZACHARY FITZGERALD
In mid-April, dredging began in the Crewboat Cut section of the Atchafalaya River.
Brice Civil Constructors, an Alaskan company, is building a special purpose dredge using an offshore support vessel with a drag arm to reduce the density of fluid mud, known as fluff, in the Atchafalaya River Bar Channel. Port leaders expect dredging of the bar channel to commence by June.
Weather Eyes
By ZACHARY FITZGERALD
Meteorologists have full-time jobs watching and forecasting potentially hazardous weather. But they still need help from volunteers known as spotters.
The National Weather Service’s Lake Charles Office, Port of Morgan City and St. Mary Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness hosted a SKYWARN training class Monday to show people how to spot and report severe weather.
Major dredging work nearing start
The Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District Commission held a stakeholder meeting Monday to mainly discuss upcoming dredging projects. From left, are Port Attorney Gerard Bourgeois, commissioners Pete Orlando and Steven Cornes, and Commission President Joe Cain.By ZACHARY FITZGERALD
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 City area, because many vessels cannot get through the waterways.
Business goes on as usual at port meeting
Standing, from left, Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District Attorney Gerard Bourgeois swears in new portcommissioners Troy Lombardo and Steven Cornes at the start of Monday’s commission meeting.
By ZACHARY FITZGERALD
Despite the partial federal government shutdown, the first meeting of 2019 for the Morgan City Harbor and
Terminal District Commission went on mostly as it normally does. Two new commissioners, Steven Cornes and Troy Lombardo, were sworn in at the start Monday’s meeting. The commission also elected Joe Cain as commission president, Lee Dragna as vice president, Deborah Garber as treasurer and Tim Matthews as secretary.
Annual Report for the Year 2018
As we begin 2019, the Port of Morgan City is pleased to deliver our annual report for the year 2018 to you! It is rather lengthy, but we hope you will take the time to read it. We have a lot of good information to share with you. We also provided links throughout our report to some of the things we discussed incase you want to learn more about the topic.
