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Mile 122.5 - Central Louisiana Electric Co aerial crossing
122.5 Central Louisiana Electric Co aerial crossing
River Log section: Atchafalaya River
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122.5 Central Louisiana Electric Co aerial crossing
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122.4 Equilon Pipeline Co 22” crude oil pipeline
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122.3 Louisiana Intrastate Gas Corp 8” natural gas pipeline 122.3 Louisiana Intrastate Gas Corp 12” natural gas pipeline 122.3 Texas E & P Inc 8” oil pipeline
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121.8 Avoca Duck Club 2” waterline
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121.7 - 130.3 Bateman Island Paddlers will find several large stands of cypress trees on islands downstream of Morgan City. The biggest and best of the these cypress forests will be found on Bateman Island. Bateman is the first tall island below Morgan City. It starts less than
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121.5 LBD Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (East) Access to Bayou Shaffer. Warning: Inflow. Paddlers, be alert, there is flow going into the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway off the Atchafalaya. Hardly noticeable at low water, but sucking inwards with strength at high water. When you paddle back from the Gulf this might
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121.4 LBD Mr. Charlie: The International Petroleum Museum Almost directly across the river from the Berwick Public Boat Ramp you might notice an floating oil derrick anchored up to the shore. This is the Mr. Charlie, and it’s tied up at the International Petroleum Museum, which claims to
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121.4 RBD Berwick Public Boat Ramp The Berwick Public Boat Ramp is the only public boat ramp in the downtown. Double wide boat ramp within protected harbor. Excellent launch place, end place or meet place. You can park your car here and leave overnight, or for a week, with
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121.3 Morgan City Texas and New Orleans Railroad Bridge This innocuous railroad bridge is a milestone for long distance paddlers: it is the very last bridge on the entire Atchafalaya-Mississippi River system. Congratulations paddler! After paddling under your first bridge below Lake Itasca (the 1st 3 bridges are actually
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121.2 LBD Morgan City Downtown Landing Paddlers wanting or needing to stop in downtown Morgan City can make landing amongst the shrimp boats and other fishing vessels pulled up here under the sea wall. But this would not be a good place to leave your vessel for long, and
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121 Morgan City US Hwy 90 Bridge There are two US 90 bridges at Morgan City, each one carrying 2-lanes of traffic in opposite directions. The older bridge is a K-Truss Bridge, of which there six bridges in Louisiana. According to the Historic American Engineering Record the K-truss type of
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120.8 LBD Texaco Marine Service Dock