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Mile 67.1 - LBD Pioneer Natural Gas Company
67.1 LBD Pioneer Natural Gas Company
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River Log section: Atchafalaya River
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Mile 66.7 - LBD Pat’s Throat
66.7 LBD Pat’s Throat Pat’s Throat is a very narrow bayou (not wider than a ditch at river startplace) connecting at mile 66.7 left bank descending. Pat’s Throat runs during the spring pulse, when the water is above 24 KG, and connects to Straight Bayou
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Mile 66.4 - RBD Splice Lake
66.4 RBD Splice Lake Cool place to stop and explore! A path leads from the river to an inlet on Splice Lake. Possible camping in woods at head of trail. Vibrant wooded area full of wildlife, and mixed deciduous forest becoming cypress in a ring around the lake.
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Mile 64.4 - Southern Natural Gas Company 10” Pipeline
64.4 Southern Natural Gas Company 10” Pipeline
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Mile 62.3 - LBD Bayou Des Glaises
62.3 LBD Bayou Des Glaises 1st natural opening off the Atchafalaya below the end of the levee (eight miles upstream at 54.2). No flow except in highest of water levels. Leads to Stand Canal which sometimes connects to Pat’s Throat, mile 66.7
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Mile 61.7 - LBD Bayou Des Glaises Boat Ramp (primitive)
61.7 LBD Bayou Des Glaises Boat Ramp (primitive) This gravel boat ramp is found just downstream of an bankside aggregate operation. Cut in left bank descending below the last of the gravel or sand barges parked here and make landing. PS: We’re calling this the Bayou Des Glaises
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Mile 60.5 - Union Texas Petrochemical Aerial Crossing
60.5 Union Texas Petrochemical Aerial Crossing
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Mile 60.0 - RBD Sand Dune
60 RBD Sand Dune There is a mound of sand with willow on top that gets regenerated here by the fast water swelling up under the bridge, and would make a great campsite except for the never ceasing cacophony of traffic going over the I-10 bridge. If you spent the
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Mile 59.8 - I-10 The Atchafalaya Basin Bridge
59.8 I-10 The Atchafalaya Basin Bridge Also known as the “Swamp Expressway.” This is probably the ugliest bridge on the Atchafalaya River; it’s nothing more than a cold steel megalith cutting across the horizon as if a monotone grey-green skyscraper fell over here. Unlike the other elegant bridges
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Mile 59.6 - Gulf States Utility Co. Aerial Crossing
59.6 Gulf States Utility Co. Aerial Crossing 59.6 LBD Cell Tower
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Mile 56.4 - The Atchafalaya Split
56.4 The Atchafalaya Split The Atchafalaya divides into two big channels at this fork in the road, and both routes make for good paddling and good scenery along the way. The right hand fork is the Old Channel of the Atchafalaya. And the left hand fork is the New
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Mile 56.4 - RBD Old Atchafalaya Point
56.4 RBD Old Atchafalaya Point Good picnic site on grassy point at the split of the Old Atchafalaya River and the Pilot’s Channel which should be dry up to 25KG. You could also make a possible camp here, but there are 3 small houses close by on the