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89.7 RBD Pipeline Canal This broad pipeline canal leads into a cypress swamp which separates (West) Grand Lake into two lakes. Great birding and wildlife viewing, and possible highwater access to West Fork Chicot Pass.
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88.1 RBD Canal Entrance Alternate entrance to West Fork Chicot Pass -- but now filling in due to sedimentation in recent decades. Would make good dry spot for landings except for nearby cabin and posted no trespassing.
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86.8 RBD Canal Entrance Old entrance to West Fork Chicot Pass which is now filling in due to sedimentation. Slight anomaly in the bank here creates a possible picnic or campsite here, with close by woods for protection in winds or storms. Underwater and flowing during high river levels
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86.2 RBD Canal Entrance Stays dry up to higher water levels. Small harbor and grassy banks.
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85.7 RBD Danbury Management Corp Dock An example of some of the intensive oil exploration and extraction that takes place in the Atchafalaya Basin. Avoid area.
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83.9 Florida Gas Transmission Co. 8” gas pipeline
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83.2 Philip’s Canal Philip’s Canal is a pipeline canal also known as Bayou Jean Louis, leading to St. Bon Canal, and Bayou Chene, which runs along the West Basin Protection Levee.
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83.1 Enterprise Products two 8” natural gas pipelines
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83 Pipeline Tailings It’s not very pretty, but it stays dry in higher water levels. You could make a possible picnic or campsite here on the dredging tailings from the Dow Pipeline. 83 Dow Pipeline (unknown details)
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82.9 Trans Canada Gas Processing 8” liquid gas pipeline 82.9 Dow Chemical lpg pipeline
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82 - 99 Chicot Pass There are not a lot of options in this stretch of the main channel, which was cut into and now inhabits the old Chicot Pass. Some of the few landings are found where on dredge tailings where pipelines cross under the river. As such, the
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82.4 LBD Bee Bayou Bee Bayou is another cross-Basin waterway that feeds deep into the heart of the Atchafalaya, but could be used to access the East Basin Protection Levee as well. Bee Bayou would make an easy entrance to reach East Grand Lake via Keelboat Pass or Hog