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Investigate TV. Southeast Louisiana levee leaders hail first Morganza to Gulf funds. By Rob Masson. Updated: Jan. Share on Facebook. Email This Link. Share on Twitter.

Share on Pinterest. Share on LinkedIn. The Morganza-to-the-Gulf Hurricane Protection System is a levee, lock, and floodgate system designed to provide year, Category 3 storm surge protection to more than , Americans living in coastal Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes 60 miles southwest of New Orleans as well as over 1, square miles of fresh and saltwater marsh. The recommended plan described in the U. Frustrated with delays, Terrebonne's Levee Board began building Morganza using mostly local sales tax money after Hurricane Rita flooded an estimated 10, homes in the parish in Chip Kline, chairman of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, noted that state and local taxpayers' action to get the project rolling helped persuade officials in Washington to approve the federal money.

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