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144 RBD Angelina Landing Angelina Landing sits within Angelina Bend. Paddlers can access a small steep sandbar at Angelina during low/med water levels, and find a thick willow forest behind. This would be a possible camp site for a a small group up to 10NO/20BR. Very private. No
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144.5 Petroleum Fuel & Terminal
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144.9 LBD Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals
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145.4 Kaiser Bauxite For some reason bauxite (aluminum) factories like to situate themselves in the vicinity of big bridges in this stretch of the river. First we paddled by Burnside Alumina Refinery above the Sunshine Bridge, and now Kaiser Bauxite below the Grammercy Bridge. The other interesting connection is
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145.4 LBD Noranda Alumina Gramercy The orange facility just downriver from Rain CII is the Noranda Alumina refinery. The orange color comes from bauxite (aluminum ore). Construction on the alumina refinery began in 1957 with the first shipment of alumina occurring two years later. Ocean going freighters supply the
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145.6 LBD Rain CII Gramercy Calciner Commissioned in 1972 by Kaiser Aluminum; the plant was built to calcine (heat in rotary kilns) petroleum coke in order to produce carbon that is made into aluminum smelter anodes (electrodes). It has one rotary kiln with 230,000 ton/yr capacity. The
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145.7 LBD CCI-Carbon, Gramercy Plant Coke Dock
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145.9 Gramercy Bridge (Veteran’s Memorial Bridge) The Veteran’s Memorial Gramercy Bridge carries LA State Highway 3213 over the Mississippi with a 3,101 foot long Continuous Steel Truss Through Deck. On the river, main channel traffic uses the 750 foot wide center “channel span.” Paddlers can use
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146.1 LBD Imperial Sugar, Molasses Dock
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146.2 LBD Louisiana Sugar Refining (LSR) Founded in 1895 by a group of financiers from Gramercy Park, New York on a site called "Faubourg Lapin". First operated as a sugar mill to process sugar cane from Golden Grove Plantation. A refinery was built in 1902 to supply
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147 Gramercy Gramercy Industrial Reach features Imperial Sugar, Gramercy Aluminum, and CCI Coke Dock, all crammed in together, with Kinder Morgan Bulk Grain Transfer and Petroleum Fuel a mile further.
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149 - 147 LBD Upper Grandview Anchorage As you leave Paulina/Poche Park you will immediately paddle into the Upper Grandview Anchorage for more weaving in and out of parked freighters, or to avoid them altogether by staying right bank or tight left bank. Directly below this anchorage your nostrils