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Mile 170.9 - LBD River Cement Sales Co., Burnside Terminal Wharf
170.9 LBD River Cement Sales Co., Burnside Terminal Wharf
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Mile 171.8 - LBD GETCO, Dry Bulk Transfer Moorings
171.8 LBD GETCO, Dry Bulk Transfer Moorings
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Mile 173.4 - RBD Triad Nitrogen Wharf
173.4 RBD Triad Nitrogen Wharf
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Mile 173.5 - RBD CF Industries
173.5 RBD CF Industries CF Industries sprawling 1,400 acre Nitrogen Complex is touted as the largest nitrogen operation in North America. The facility produces anhydrous ammonia, granular urea and urea ammonium nitrate solution for agricultural and industrial use. In 2000 the facility had an explosion that killed 3
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Mile 173.7 - LBD Private House and Boat Ramp
173.7 LBD Private House and Boat Ramp A cabin is tucked into the woods with a private stone boat ramp composed of rocks and laid out at an upstream angle into directly into the rip-rap. You can eddy out into a small inlet directly below this cabin, and find
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Mile 175.2 - Donaldsonville Boat Ramp
175.2 Donaldsonville Boat Ramp Even though there is a Boat Ramp marked on the USACE 2007 Lower Mississippi River Maps at Donaldsonville, it was ruined by the sediment effect of the 2011 flood, and the short remaining peice of concrete ramp exposed does not reach the river at most
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Mile 175.3 - 175.3 - 174 RBD Donaldsonville Fleeting
175.3 - 174 RBD Donaldsonville Fleeting
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Mile 177.0 - RBD - 174 LBD Smoke Bend Crossing
177 RBD - 174 LBD Smoke Bend Crossing As you come around Eighty-One Mile Point stay wide for the safest route of travel away from freighter traffic. Or cut the point tight and hug the inside of the bend. Maintain constant vigilance as you paddle, and monitor VHF Channel 67.
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Mile 177.9 - RBD Smoke Bend Sand Dune
177.9 RBD Smoke Bend Sand Dune A medium-sized dune is found here along Smoke Bend (opposite Eighty-One Mile Point) that would make good stop place for picnic or camping, but this low lying dune is dry only up to 15 BR gage.
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Mile 177.3 - 177.3 - 175.2 LBD L & L Fleeting and Mooring
177.3 - 175.2 LBD L & L Fleeting and Mooring Paddlers be careful maneuvering around Eighty-One Mile Point. One-barge, one-towboat packets frequently move barges from lower fleeting area back and forth between here and L&L Dry Bulk Transfer. Big Foot The river makes a distinctive down
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Mile 180.3 - 180.3 - 178.8 LBD L & L Dry Bulk Transfer & Mooring
180.3 - 178.8 LBD L & L Dry Bulk Transfer & Mooring Specializing in grains and scrap metals, L&L cranes snort black diesel smoke high into the atmosphere as it swings its buckets up & down and back & forth, with seemingly endless conveyor belts, and
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Mile 181.4 - LBD Koch Gathering Systems, Darrow Oil Field Wharf
181.4 LBD Koch Gathering Systems, Darrow Oil Field Wharf Philadelphia Point/ Eighty-One Mile Point Greenspace The Philadelphia Point/ Eighty-One Mile Point Greenspace is corrupted by the very noisy and 24-activity at L&L Dry Bulk Transfer. Still, it is worth noting that a mosaic-type patchwork quilt of green