Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 139.4 - LBD Cargill
139.4 LBD Cargill Cargill’s Terre Haute grain terminal is located just downriver from Marathon. The terminal has 4 load spouts and a 6,000,000 bushel capacity. (Paul Orr)
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Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 143.6 - LBD Nalco Garyville and Evonik Stockhausen
143.6 LBD Nalco Garyville and Evonik Stockhausen Nalco first opened a production facility in Garyville in 1970. Today, the Garyville complex comprises more than 220-acres and produces industrial water treatment products, such as corrosion and scale inhibitors, used in boilers and cooling towers; wastewater treatment products; and process chemicals
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 145.4 - LBD Noranda Alumina Gramercy
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
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 145.6 - LBD Rain CII Gramercy Calciner
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
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 146.2 - LBD Louisiana Sugar Refining (LSR)
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
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
Vicksburg
Vicksburg Vicksburg marks a significant change of geography for the Lower Mississippi River paddler. Vicksburg heralds the end of the Mississippi Delta and the beginning of the Mississippi Loess Bluffs. From here down to St. Francisville there are no continuous levees on the Mississippi side because of the high ground
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
Mile 363.5 - LBD Natchez-Under-the-Hill
363.5 LBD Natchez-Under-the-Hill Steep concrete ramp diving into the river at the base of the Natchez Bluffs, the best place to make a landing and a visit to the classy river town of Natchez. After you make landing and get your land legs, stroll up to the top of
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
Mile 365.0 - RBD Opening to Old River -- Bottom End (Marengo Bend Lake)
365 RBD Opening to Old River -- Bottom End (Marengo Bend Lake) Only access to Marengo Lake/Old River. Public boat launch 8 miles around the outside bend of the lake (west side). The water never gets too low to paddle into the bottom end of Marengo Lake for a
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
Mile 367.5 - RBD Opening to Old River -- Top End (Marengo Bend Lake)
367.5 RBD Opening to Old River -- Top End (Marengo Bend Lake) Previous to 1933 the Mississippi made a giant curve around Marengo Bend into the rich Louisiana bottomlands before curving back to slam into the bluffs at Natchez. The Giles Cutoff changed that, resulting in the 10-mile long
Baton Rouge to Venice
Mile 150.4 - LBD ADM Growmark St. Elmo
150.4 LBD ADM Growmark St. Elmo ADM Growmark’s St. Elmo grain terminal is just upriver from Paulina, LA. It has a 2,000,000 bushel capacity.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
Mile 367.0 - LBD Devil’s Punchbowl
367 LBD Devil’s Punchbowl “Far in the past, a great cup-shaped hole, about five hundred feet wide, had formed in the soft earth of the river bluffs. Slowly it seemed to widen, as gullies formed along its sides and rows of trees hurtled into its depths. Thickly grown, it
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
Mile 367.0 - Miles 367-365: LBD Remnants of Cypress Forest
367 - 365 LBD Remnants of Cypress Forest In low and medium water levels, the stumps of giant cypress trees can be seen at the base of the bluffs along the left bank descending and are the remnants of the forests found here that stalled the opening of the Giles