Baton Rouge to Venice
206 RBD - Reveilletown An accident at the Georgia Gulf PVC plant filled the air of the surrounding area with toxic fumes. Plumes of vinyl chloride seeped into the residential community of Reveilletown, which was located less than 1,000 feet from the plant. Residents filed suit against Georgia Gulf
Baton Rouge to Venice
209 RBD - Myrtle Grove Trailer Park The extensive vinyl chloride contamination under the Dow facility that spurred the Morrisonville buyout also traveled through the groundwater more than a mile south of the facility. In 1997 the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals found vinyl chloride in the drinking water
Baton Rouge to Venice
210.2 RBD - Morrisonville Founded on Manchac Point, a spit of swampy land surrounded by the Mississippi River, by slaves newly freed from plantations near Plaquemine, Louisiana. Following catastrophic flooding on the Mississippi River the residents moved in 1931, a few miles west and just inside the new Federal
Baton Rouge to Venice
231.8 RBD - Sunrise The town of Sunrise was founded by a former slave in 1874. A large oil refinery was constructed adjacent to this community in 1972 and acquired by Placid Refining in 1974. By 1990, Placid had bought out 241 residents breaking apart the historic community.
Baton Rouge to Venice
232 LBD - Exxon Mobile Buffer Zone The Standard Oil Company built an oil refinery not far from downtown Baton Rouge in 1909. In the decades following the city grew up around the refinery and soon was surrounded by primarily white middle-class neighborhoods. The refinery boomed during WWII, literally fueling
Baton Rouge to Venice
235 LBD - University Place A predominantly African-American community adjacent to the campus of historic Southern University in Baton Rouge. It is also adjacent to the Baton Rouge North Wastewater Treatment Plant. As the treatment plant expanded odors and sewer flies plagued the community. A second round of buyouts will
Baton Rouge to Venice
244.5 - Devil’s Swamp Lake Superfund Site Devil’s Swamp is located on a point of land surrounded by, and regularly flooded by, the Mississippi River and is about ten miles north of the City of Baton Rouge. Devil’s Swamp is a wetland, flood plain and lake
Baton Rouge to Venice
245 LBD - Alsen The Rollins hazardous-waste landfill and incinerator is located next to Alsen, a historic African-American community of 1,104 persons in 1980. After years of noxious odors, cattle dropping dead in their field, deer with tumors, and yards littered with dead birds (just to name a few
Baton Rouge to Venice
246.5 LBD - Petro Processors Superfund Site Petro-Processors of Louisiana, Inc. Brooklawn site is located on Brooklawn Drive one and one half miles west of Scenic Highway. From 1969 to 1978 Petro-Processors used the site as a depository for various petrochemical waste products. The Brooklawn site covers approximately 80
Atchafalaya River
Author’s Preface: Welcome the the Rivergator: Paddler’s Guide to the Atchafalaya! This major section of the Rivergator is split into seven different parts: 1) Preamble, 2) Introduction, 3) Mississippi River Access to Atchafalaya, 4) Lower Old River Canal, 5) Atchafalaya River, 6) Atchafalaya Delta and 7) Appendix. On
Atchafalaya River
303.8 Old River Lock and Dam: Entrance to the Atchafalaya River Go main channel around Shreve’s Bar for access to the Atchafalaya River, your best route to the Gulf of Mexico. Also: direct access upstream to the Red River, Ouachita River, Bayou Bartolomew, and all other tributaries upstream.
Atchafalaya River
304.5 - 303 LBD Shreve’s Bar Leaving the Tunica Hills at Clark Creek behind and entering Louisiana the river expands to its maximum mile-and-a-half wide as if breathing in deep and opening up its broad chest, and enters a long straight stretch that can be a white water