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114.7 City of Kenner Landing (Upper) Primitive access to the City of Kenner over rip-rap to dead end turn around road. On Google maps seen behind wrecked work barge marooned on river bank. Not recommended for camping, but possible access place. 113 LBD City of Kenner Landing Best access
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115.1 LBD Belle Chasse Marine Transportation, Inc., Ama Launch Mooring 115.1 LBD Lower River Ship Services, Ama Landing
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115.2 LBD Crescent Ship Service, Ama Landing
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115.8 RBD ARTCO Tulane Fleeting, Barge Cleaning Wharf and Lower Kenner Bend Fleet Moorings
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116 - 113 RBD Kenner Bend Anchorage As noted above, watch for off-channel traffic in between anchored freighters and fleeted barges tight here within the Kenner Bend Anchorage and Lower Kenner Bend Anchorage. Smaller tows (1-6 barges) tend to cut the corner and current here along the Kenner Bend by
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117.3 - 115.5 Ama Anchorage
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117.5 LBD St. Rose Landing A narrow low slung bar forms here behind sometimes long lines of fleeted barges, and might make for good landings and camping/picnicking in low water levels, but marked “Restricted Access” with large white sign planted in middle of sandbar.
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117.6 RBD ADM/Growmark, Ama Grain Elevator Dock Archer Daniels Midland grain terminal with 4 loading spouts and a 5,500,000 bushel capacity. In 1902, George A. Archer and John W. Daniels began a linseed crushing business. In 1923, Archer-Daniels Linseed Company acquired Midland Linseed Products Company, and
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118 RBD - 115 LBD Fairview Crossing Paddlers can follow this crossing once safely underneath and past the Luling Bridge, if the coast is clear. Otherwise maintain a line of travel in between main channel and the Kenner Anchorages. Watch for off-channel traffic between anchored freighters and fleeted barges tight
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118.7 RBD Davis Crevasse Paddlers in need of seeking shelter from oncoming storms or high winds would find refuge in the rectangular peaceful harbor carved into the West Bank at 118.7RBD. The banks are soft mud lined with rip-rap, but you could make a landing also within this
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118.8 LBD International Matex, St. Rose Terminal, Berths Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 14, and 15 International Matex oversees 15 freighter berths between 118.8 and 118.5 LBD for the purpose of bulk chemical storage and transfer. Bloomberg.com reports that
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119.2 LBD Crescent Towing & Salvage, St. Rose Wharf