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Hymelia Crevasse 131.5 RBD The crevasse at Hymelia plantation occurred on March 26, 1903, and was the most disastrous break in the levees in that major flood year. The levee at Hymelia had been considered perfectly safe, and it was with real astonishment that an observer reported discovering a
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132.4 LBD ArcelorMittal (Bayou Steel) ArcelorMittal, formerly Bayou Steel, produces steel materials including billets, equal leg angles, unequal leg angles, flats, channels, standard beams and wide flange beams. There is also an automobile shredder and barge wrecking service at the facility. ArcelorMittal released 22,686 pounds of toxins into
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132.9 LBD Bonnet Carre Crevasse The east bank of the Lower Mississippi, opposite Bonnet Carre Point, was an area where it seemed almost impossible to construct a levee that could withstand a major flood. Levees had crumbled in the area many times, and when the flood of 1850 came
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133 RBD Bonnet Carre Point As you round Bonnet Carre Point you enter a five mile section of relative calm before the frenzied industrial storm resumes at the Bonnet Carre Spillway, and Norco/Shell beyond it. There is some fleeting here, and a few small bankside industries, but they seem
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133.9 LBD CGB Marine Services Gulf, Repair Wharves and Upper East Bank Fleet Mooring Bonnet Carre/Thirty-Five Mile Point Green Space Paddlers coming around Bonnet Carre Point might receive a refreshing breath of humid salty air, especially in easterly winds. You are now less than five miles from the
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135.7 LBD DuPont Pontchartrain Works This DuPont Pontchartrain Works contains two plants that each produce materials of importance to paddlers: one that makes neoprene rubber, the other makes Kevlar fiber. DuPont invented neoprene, a synthetic chlorinated rubber, in 1930. DuPont invented Kevlar, a para-aramid synthetic fiber, in 1965. In
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137.4 LBD Crescent Ship Service & Weber Marine
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136.7 LBD Elmwood Marine Services Repair Wharf and Capital Marine Supply, Triangle Fleet Moorings Both sides of the river are plastered with fleeted barges as you come into Montz Bend around Bonnet Carre Point.
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135.4 - 134.7 LBD La Place Anchorage As noted above, the main channel gets squeezed in this area between a very long fleeting area on both sides of the river, in addition to this anchorage. If the freighters are stationary (they usually are) you can stay out of
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137.8 - 135 RBD Cargo Carriers Fleeting & Mooring Warning: paddlers will encounter non-stop fleeted barges for 3 to 4 miles crowding the entire West bank from 138 to 134 RBD. Downstream of Bonnet Carre Point the barges are moored mid-channel, while the navigation channel swings wide towards East
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138 RBD Reserve The Reserve Ferry is no longer in operation, but paddlers can stop at the old Ferry Landing and access Reserve. Be sure to pull your vessel out of the water. Tugboats making big waves also frequent this landing. Recommended resupply: Greg's Neighborhood Market, just over
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138.7 LBD Port of South Louisiana, Globalplex Bulk Commodities Wharves Formerly a sugar mill, the Globalplex Intermodal Terminal is a public terminal -owned by the Port of South Louisiana and operated by Associated Terminals- for both vessels and barges that provides handling and storage for bulk, breakbulk, and containerized