Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 139.2 - LBD ADM/Growmark, Reserve Elevator Wharf
139.2 LBD ADM/Growmark, Reserve Elevator Wharf ADM Growmark has a grain terminal just downriver from Cargil.
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Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 139.4 - LBD Cargill
139.4 LBD Cargill Cargill’s Terre Haute grain terminal is located just downriver from Marathon. The terminal has 4 load spouts and a 6,000,000 bushel capacity. (Paul Orr)
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 139.8 - LBD Cargill, Inc. - NAGOC Reserve Oilseed Wharf
139.8 LBD Cargill, Inc. - NAGOC Reserve Oilseed Wharf
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 140.5 - LBD Marathon Garyville Refinery, Pinnacle Polymers, and Air products and Chemicals
140.5 LBD Marathon Garyville Refinery, Pinnacle Polymers, and Air products and Chemicals Construction began in 1973 by ECOL, Ltd. and was completed in 1976, when Marathon purchased and started up the plant. Marathon is located on 3,500 acres of former San Francisco Plantation property. Marathon is the third
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 140.6 - 140.6 - 140.0 LBD Marathon Ashland Petroleum, Louisiana Refining Docks 1, 2, 3 & 4
140.6 - 140.0 LBD Marathon Ashland Petroleum, Louisiana Refining Docks 1, 2, 3 & 4
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 141.2 - LBD - Garyville & 139.75 LBD - Lions
141.25 LBD - Garyville & 139.75 LBD - Lions The Marathon refinery is located between Lions, a community founded by former slaves, and Garyville, a racially mixed community on the upstream side. Refinery operations and multiple accidents contributed to an unhealthy and noxious environment; residents from both towns
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 141.7 - LBD St. John Fleeting, Repair Wharves and Garyville Fleet
141.7 LBD St. John Fleeting, Repair Wharves and Garyville Fleet
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 141.0 - RBD - 139 LBD Willow Bend Crossing
141 RBD - 139 LBD Willow Bend Crossing Coming into the very busy industrial reach of Reserve, paddlers should listen to VHF 67 and watch very carefully as you paddle around Forty Eight Mile Point. Follow your intuition as to best line of travel. Too wide might bring you face
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 142.0 - 142RBD Willow Bend
142RBD Willow Bend Willow Bend rewards paddlers with a three mile stretch of no industry and some attractive all weather, all water level sandbars. There is barge fleeting within Willow Bend, however, and like other blind corners you will have to stay awake and alert for oncoming freighters, tugs, and
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 142.3 - RBD Wego
142.3 RBD Wego Paddlers can make landing and find possible picnicking and camping at Wego, which spreads out in quiet forested area between 143 and 142. You will see two obvious openings in low and medium waters, but all sand goes underwater in higher river levels (12-17NO) leaving nothing
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 142.4 - LBD Forty-Eight Mile Point/ Belle Point
142.4 LBD Forty-Eight Mile Point/ Belle Point Forty-Eight Mile Point was once a beautiful wild location with bountiful sandbars and good camping at all water levels. Unfortunately this has all been destroyed by a vigorous and sloppy barge maintenance and fleeting service which has claimed this once pristine place
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 143.6 - LBD Nalco Garyville and Evonik Stockhausen
143.6 LBD Nalco Garyville and Evonik Stockhausen Nalco first opened a production facility in Garyville in 1970. Today, the Garyville complex comprises more than 220-acres and produces industrial water treatment products, such as corrosion and scale inhibitors, used in boilers and cooling towers; wastewater treatment products; and process chemicals