Baton Rouge to Venice
107.6 RBD Litton Industries The Litton Industries Docks No 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all strung along this right bank descending for the next mile from 107.6 - 106.6 RBD, the idled remains of Avondale Shipyards.
Baton Rouge to Venice
107.8 RBD Litton/Avondale Industries, Inc., Main Plant Wet Dock No. 1
Baton Rouge to Venice
108.3 RBD International - Matex Tank Terminals, Ltd., Avondale Dock No’s 1, 2 & 3
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108.4 RBD Wood Resources Corp., Avondale Wharf
Baton Rouge to Venice
112 - 109 LBD Twelve Mile Point Greenspace This Chem Corridor Greenspace is the thinnest yet encountered on the Lower Mississippi, but provides all of the buffer necessary to achieve the “river illusion,” that peaceful sensation that only a paddler can enjoy. Even though this Greenspace is a thin slice
Baton Rouge to Venice
111.8 LBD Small Sand Dune There is a small sand dune with soft landing that forms in low water, and would make for good camping or picnicking at any water levels below 8NO. Good protection from levee by thick brushy woods.
Baton Rouge to Venice
111 RBD ARTCO New Orleans Shipyard Slip You’ve probably had close encounters with their big 3-screw tows throwing out big rolling waves in their outwash upstream, their fleet includes the Crimson Duke, the American Spirit, and other giants of the Mississippi River, some of the biggest and most power
Baton Rouge to Venice
111-109 Wood Resources Fleeting Two miles of fleeting occupy the outside of Avondale Bend partially squeezing traffic through this section. Large eddie along 12-Mile Point might force you into the middle of the river, causing head on collisions with other traffic in the area. Use your best paddler’s judgement
Baton Rouge to Venice
111 - 108 Avondale Bend/the “River Illusion” As you paddle into Avondale Bend the busy industrial Kenner reach fades away and some quietness returns along with long lines of trees on both sides of the river, giving the illusion of paddling through a wild wooded place. We call this
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112.1 East Jefferson Parish Discharge A low water sandbar is found downstream of the East Jefferson Parish Discharge, but this is a place you will definitely want to avoid except in emergency situations. Black water releases are common. As with similar sized communities across America, East Jefferson Parish communities
Baton Rouge to Venice
112.2 LBD Azalea Fleet, Inc., Mooring
Baton Rouge to Venice
113 LBD Kenner, LA Kenner is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. State of Louisiana. It is the largest city in Jefferson Parish, United States, Louisiana's second-most populous parish, and a suburb of New Orleans. The population was 66,975 at the 2013 census. (Wiki) From the