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29 RBD Empire Locks Access to Adam’s Bay, Barataria Bay, and beaches along West Bay of the Gulf of Mexico. Heavily trafficked by fishermen. The Empire Lock and Waterway connect the Lower Mississippi with the Gulf of Mexico via Adams Bay. The lock, built by the Corps of Engineers,
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29.1 RBD - Daybrook Fisheries Just over the levee in Empire is a menhaden processing plant. The plant processes menhaden (locally called pogies) into fish oil and fish meal. You may see the iconic blue and yellow boats, carrying two net tenders piggyback, motoring up or down the river
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28 - 31 LBD Point Pleasant Good low/med water camping on grassy shelves. Paddlers will find several miles of natural wild shoreline below Point Pleasant on the East Bank, from 28 - 31 LBD. If you seek a campsite, stop at the first good-looking place you find. Further down
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30.4 RBD Plaquemine Towing Corp. Mooring and Banta mile 207 Fleet
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32 - 28 Tropical Bend Funny Note: on the USACE there is a typo that reads “Tropical Blend” at this point. Maybe that’s what the USACE map-makers were mixing up as they proof-read this 2007 edition of the Lower Mississippi Maps?
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33.2 LBD Bayou LaMoques/Balandock Canal Three possible openings flowing towards gulf. Witnessed airboat pass through one in Nov 2015.
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35.2 LBD - Bass Enterprises In 1973 a major flood crisis occurred at Nairn, Louisiana, on the west bank of the Mississippi about 60 miles below New Orleans. On April 26, 1973, late in the evening, a bank in front of the levee began to slough, and by dawn
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35.2 LBD Pointe a la Hache Relief Outlet Two monstrous box-shaped motors 3-stories tall straddle the riverbank here, for unknown reasons. Are these water pumps? They look like a box fans on steroids -- like something gone wild from another dimension. Like air boats made for dinosaurs. Woody Allen
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35.6 RBD Bass Enterprises Production Co., Cox Bay Field, West Bank Crew Boat Landing
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39 RBD - Freeport Sulphur Company The Freeport Sulphur Company established logistics, refining, storage and shipping operations here to support its nearby Frasch Process sulphur mine at Lake Grande Ecaille. The Grande Ecaille sulphur mine, about 10 miles to the southwest out in the marsh, was the largest sulphur deposit
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39.7 LBD Nestor Canal You could find access to the Gulf vie Nestor Canal and the Back Levee Canal to which it connects. But the Nestor Canal is cut off from river by gated entry. Would require portage.
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39.4 - 38.8 RBD Freeport-McMoran Sulphur Company Welcome to Port Sulphur, once the world’s largest sulphur mine. You may look around at all the flat marshy country stretching as far as the eye can see in all directions and wonder to yourself, “sulphur?” and “mine?” “But there