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167 -165 LBD Sunshine Anchorage Watch for two-mile long anchoring area for freighters on East side of main navigation channel. You can paddle through the center of this anchorage if there is no movement of freighters. But if you see tugboats at work, or freighters in motion, stay clear. Bonfires
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167 RBD Mosaic Faustina and American Styrenics The Mosaic Company’s Faustina plant sits on a 2,850-acre site and was owned by Gulf Oil Corp. between 1967 and 1972, the Williams Co. between 1972 and 1986, Freeport-McMoran Corp. from 1986 to 1983, IMC Global from 1993 to 2004, and
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167.5 Sunshine Bridge La State Highway 70 crosses the Sunshine Bridge connecting East Bank and West Bank. The Sunshine Bridge is named after the Louisiana Governor Jimmie Davis who penned the immortal song, “You Are My Sunshine,” and is a Continuous Steel Truss Through Deck with a length of
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167.6 RBD Eagle Asphalt Products Wharf.
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167.8 LBD Lafarge North America
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168.3 LBD Motiva Convent Refinery Motiva Convent Refinery is a 50/50 joint venture between affiliates of Shell Oil Company and Saudi Aramco. The refinery is designed to process approximately 225,000 barrels per day of crude oil. The refinery produces conventional petroleum products and refinery grade sulfur. The
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168.4 - 168.2 LBD Motiva Enterprises, Convent Refinery, Dock No. 1 & 2
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169.2 LBD Chemours Formerly E I DuPont De Nemours, the Chemours facility was originally built in 1968 and regenerates spent sulfuric acid. Oil refineries use sulfuric acid to produce gasoline which leaves a large amount of “spent” sulfuric acid waste. This waste material is converted back into sulfuric acid
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169.3 LBD E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.
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169.8 LBD Ormet Primary Alumina Corp
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170 LBD Burnside Terminal and Burnside Alumina Refinery Impala Warehousing’s Burnside Terminal is the most recently constructed coal export terminal on the lower Mississippi. Burnside Terminal can handle coal, bauxite and alumina. Almatis recently acquired the Burnside Alumina Refinery from Ormet Primary Aluminum Corporation. The facility is right behind
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170.7 LBD Houmas House Plantation and Gardens Paddlers could possibly make landing at primitive boat ramp here, over the levee from the Houmas House Plantation and Gardens. But be sure to remove your vessel completely from the water, or leave someone to guard. High waves crash along these shores,