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203.8 LBD - LBC Sunshine Terminal LBC Sunshine terminal is a bulk liquid terminal with 40 tanks, a storage capacity of 118,020,000 gallons, and handles chemicals, petroleum products, and oils.
Baton Rouge to Venice
205.5 Axiall (formerly Georgia Gulf) & 204.8 Shintec Louisiana Plaquemine PVC Plant These two large facilities produce chlorvinyl chemicals, primarily for the manufacture of PVC. Shintech Corp. is the worlds largest producer of PVC. Along with the Dow Chemical and other Shintech facilities in the area, a large
Baton Rouge to Venice
209.6 RBD - Dow wastewater outfall A torrent of wastewater enters the Mississippi River here. This area is best avoided.
Baton Rouge to Venice
222 and 210 RBD - Dow Chemical Company Louisiana Operations, Dexco, and Shintech Addis With the purchase of four plantations in Iberville and West Baton Rouge parishes, Dow established it's Louisiana Operations in 1956. Today, the 1,500-acre integrated manufacturing facility is one of Louisiana’s largest petrochemical
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229.6 - 228.6 RBD - Port Of Baton Rouge The Port of Baton Rouge has 45' deepwater access for ocean-going vessels, 3,000 continuous feet of wharf, 525,000 square feet of warehouse space, 50,000 square feet of open shipside storage, rail and truck access to
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20.1 LBD - Fort St. Philip (1761 - 1765, 1792 - 1923) Directly across the Mississippi River from Fort Jackson, at Bayou Mardi Gras. A small French work known as Fort St. Philippe (1761 - 1765) was first located here. It was abandoned. The Spanish then built Fort San
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20 RBD Fort Jackson (1824 - 1920's) Completed in 1832, Fort Jackson was originally built similar to Fort Morgan in Mobile, Alabama. In 1858 the exterior Lower and Upper Water Batteries were built to either flank of the fort. The Confederates gained control in 1861, but the star-shaped
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78.1 RBD - Fort St. Leon Fort St. Leon was the name of a French fort, as well as an American fort, each established at a section on the Mississippi River below New Orleans known as English Turn. The French fort was begun in 1749 but was abandoned by
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78.1 LBD - Fort St. Marie French Period: Fort Détour à l'Anglais (1722 - 1765), originally three earthwork batteries at English Turn. Rebuilt in 1748 as two nearly identical 30-gun stockaded earthworks (a 10-gun crescent with five four-gun redans each) located across from each other just north
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70.25 RBD - Oakville Oakville, a small African-American community founded by slaves newly freed from area plantations, lies on the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish. in the 1980s the Industrial Pipe landfill was opened adjacent to the community to dispose of construction debris. Over time the landfill obtained permits
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87.5 LBD - East Chalmette The neighborhoods on the east side of the City of Chalmette abut the Valero Petroleum Refinery and the Murphy Oil petroleum storage facility which share a large industrial footprint. Residents had become accustomed to the odors and noise of the facilities. Then during Hurricane
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89.6 LBD - Former Kaiser Aluminum Site In 1951 Kaser Aluminum built an aluminum smelting plant in Chalmette, La. taking advantage of inexpensive natural gas, government incentives and a high demand for aluminum from the U.S. government stockpile. Alumina (aluminum oxide), made from bauxite at the Kaiser plant