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128.1 - 127.8 RBD Dow Chemical Company (Union Carbide Corp) Union Carbide Corporation began operating a petrochemical plant near Taft, La. in 1966. Dow Chemical Company acquired Union Carbide Corporation in 1999 and the facility now operates under the Dow logo. The facility currently consists of a 2,
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128.4 RBD - Air Products, Air Liquide, Praxair, Galata, Koch Nitrogen Air Products, Air Liquide, and Praxair are companies that operate facilities that supply industrial air products to larger industrial facilities. Most of the larger industrial complexes will have at least one of these facilities which supply liquid nitrogen,
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128.7 RBD IMC Phosphates, Taft Plant Wharf
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128.8 LBD False Boat Ramp Don’t stop here unless in emergency. This is a rocky landing with boulders strewn about, and other hazardous objects that you could run into when the water covers them, and a mud pit when the water is low. No access from here to
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128.8 - 127.3 LBD Bonnet Carre Anchorage The Bonnet Carre Anchorage coincides exactly with the mileage of the spillway, so paddlers coming around Thirty Five Mile Point intending to stop at the Spillway will need to negotiate these freighters in one fashion or the other. As will other
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128.8 - 127.3 Kugler and Kenner Cemeteries There are two graveyards located in the spillway. The cemeteries containing the remains of both free and enslaved African-Americans are under several feet of sediment. When the Spillway gates are opened, the cemeteries are flooded with up to 30 feet of
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128.9 RBD Occidental Chemical Koch Industries, Taft Plant Dock Occidental Chemical (OxyChem) produces chlorine, caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and caustic potash (potassium hydroxide). It’s toxic releases for 2013 were 105 pounds into the air and 209 into the river.
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129.4 LBD Entergy Montz Power Plant
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129.5 LBD Entergy Louisiana, Inc., Little Gypsy Power Plant Natural gas fired power plant owned by Entergy. You will paddle past an attractive inlet which cuts into the forests of Thirty-Five Mile Point. This was carved by Entergy as it wastewater outlet. In low water you will see the
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129.5 RBD Waterford 3 Owned by Entergy, the Waterford 3 nuclear power plant has one Combustion Engineering two-loop pressurized water reactor. The plant produces 1,218 megawatts of electricity since the site's last refuel in October 2009. It has a dry ambient pressure containment building.
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129.8 RBD Entergy Louisiana, Waterford Steam Electric Plants 1 & 2 Wharf Entergy owns two small natural gas fired power plants here, just upriver from Waterford 3.
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130 RBD Killona Landing There is a high shelf of sand West Bank here located in between the Waterford outfall and its towering smokestacks, which might be good dry ground up to medium water (up to 12NO) but who would want to stop here amidst all of the noise and