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102 - 101 LBD “The Fly” -- Audubon Park -- Audubon Zoo One of the most beautiful of city parks in America, Audubon Park is a 300 acre tract with lagoons, bike paths, outdoor swimming pool (open Summer), oak trees (including the “Tree of Life”), Zoo, and Golf Course. But
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102 RBD - Kinder Morgan Seven Oaks Terminal Kinder Morgan Seven Oaks Terminal is situated on 173 acres and has 19 tanks for total storage capacity of 32,266,080 gallons. It handles primary organics, organic intermediates, organic end chemicals, inorganic chemicals, plasticizers Petroleum – fuel, refined products, crude oil, ethanol,
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102.1 RBD Vopak Lower
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102.3 - 102.2 RBD Low Water Sand Dunes A couple of low water sand dunes are found in small cubbyholes cut into the West Bank riverbank, one at approx 102.3 RBD and the other at 102.2 RBD both of which would make good picnic or campsites
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102.4 RBD Vopak Terminal Westwego, Inc., Westwego Wharf 102.4 LBD Bisso Marine Co., Inc. Mooring
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102.7 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District As you paddle past Carrolton Bend you might notice a big blocky building over the East Bank near 102.7 LBD, with a tall, 3-story rounded entry, and mirror glass windows all around. This is the New Orleans Headquarters
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102.8 USACE Boat Ramp (Restricted) There is a wide boat ramp built and maintained by the USACE here, which is in much better shape than any other boat ramp below Baton Rouge. It is a revetment ramp, laid out over the rip rap on a perpendicular, dropping directly from
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103.1 - 103 RBD Cargill Westwego Grain Transfer Cargill Westwego is one of the last giant grain transfer conglomerates on the Lower Miss, and is a monstrous operation involving endless lines of barges bringing the grains in from the heartland and endless lines of freighters carrying those same grains
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104.1 LBD New Orleans Raw Water Intake It seems miraculous after you’ve seen what the river goes through below Baton Rouge in Chemical Corridor. But it is true: the Mississippi River quenches the thirst of New Orleans residents, as well as provides bath and wash water. We know
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103.8 RBD Entergy Louisiana Nine-Mile Point Steam Electric Station Entergy Louisiana’s Ninemile Point plant has been powering New Orleans and southeast Louisiana since the 1950s. The facility comprises five dual-fuel (primarily natural gas but can be run on fuel oil) boiler units, the oldest of which came online
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Carrolton Bend 104-103LBD Paddlers watch carefully for freighter traffic as you come around Nine-Mile Point, a particularly tight bend of the river. There is a possible campsite created in a small shelf of sand that seems to get regenerated year after year in a notable location next to the New
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104 RBD Nine-Mile Point A throbbing Entergy power plant dominates 9-Mile Point, but you can find camping there on a low sandbar that emerges below 8 NO gage. There is a another possible stopping place (that would be a good picnic site, and possible campsite) across the river created in