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231.9 LBD Sunrise, Louisiana Sunrise was a small town of about 9 “city blocks“ between LA Hwy 1 and the Mississippi River Road at around mile 231.9 LBD. Surrounded by cane fields it had its beginnings in property purchased by former slave Alexander Banes from a white plantation
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231.8 RBD Placid Refining This second-rate refinery takes all of the low grade crude (“sour crude”) refused by ExxonMobil (who only accepts “sweet crude”). This makes a convenient location for business. When a freighter comes up the Mississippi with payload full of trashy petroleum the highbrow ExxonMobil scientists turn
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232.2 LBD ExxonMobil And now the whopper with the big ships, buckle yourself in for the experience. The fortress-like ExxonMobil Refinery can no longer call itself the largest refinery in the world, but it is still a megalith of pipes and cat crackers, and is the 3rd largest in
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232.2 LBD ExxonMobil Graffiti Wall The ExxonMobil port is where you are likely to make your first encounter with sea-going ships carrying petroleum products to and from remote corners of the globe. Yield to any traffic, and stay tuned in to VHF 67 for any planned activity. We’re
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233.0 LBD Kinder Morgan (EXXON Petroleum Coke) The ExxonMobil Petroleum Coke terminal operated by Kinder Morgan. Watch for workboats, and towboats coming from unexpected places behind dock pilings.
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233.8 LBD Formosa Plastics Corp., Baton Rouge North Wharf Listed on USACOE charts as Formosa Plastics Corp., Baton Rouge North Wharf, the wharf is currently under repair and the dilapidated facility behind it is currently owned by CEMUS and is the former site of Kaiser Aluminum. Under rehabilitation construction
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232.9 RBD CSS Arkansas Not visible but of historic interest, the USS Arkansas is buried in the mud under the levee 1.4 miles below where the 190 bridge comes to land in Port Allen (690 feet past river mile 233). The CSS Arkansas was a Confederate Ironclad warship
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233.7 LBD Monte Sano Bayou Incorrectly listed as “Bayou Baton Rouge” on USACE river charts, Monte Sano Bayou enters the Mississippi between the Formosa Plastics Corp., Baton Rouge North Wharf and Formosa Plastics Corp., Baton Rouge Plant Wharf (the first two docks you encounter after the US 190 bridge
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233.9 US 190 and Railroad Bridge (Old Bridge) The “Old Bridge” was originally opened in 1940 and officially named the Huey P. Long Bridge. Legend has it, that famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long had this bridge built to a height
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234.2 RBD Wilkerson Landing Boat Ramp Although labeled as a boat ramp, this landing looks like a pile of concrete slag poured over the mud. In other words it’s very rough, very steep, and highly suspect for safe use. As with the above Point Place Landing you could
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235 - 234.7 LBD Southern Univ., Istrouma (Scott’s) Bluff, Mississippi Loess Bluff #9 Paddler, congratulations: you have reached the last bluff on the Lower Mississippi River! Even though you still have 245 miles to go to reach the Gulf of Mexico (South Pass route) this is a landmark
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235 RBD Point Place Landing (Wilkerson Point) Good sandy landings are found here along the inside crux of Mulatto Bend all of the way up to bank full 30BG. It’s the place to stop in the presence of oncoming storms or high winds out of the south. If the