River Log section: Baton Rouge to Venice
Baton Rouge to Venice
104.1 LBD New Orleans Raw Water Intake It seems miraculous after you’ve seen what the river goes through below Baton Rouge in Chemical Corridor. But it is true: the Mississippi River quenches the thirst of New Orleans residents, as well as provides bath and wash water. We know
Baton Rouge to Venice
103.8 RBD Entergy Louisiana Nine-Mile Point Steam Electric Station Entergy Louisiana’s Ninemile Point plant has been powering New Orleans and southeast Louisiana since the 1950s. The facility comprises five dual-fuel (primarily natural gas but can be run on fuel oil) boiler units, the oldest of which came online
Baton Rouge to Venice
Carrolton Bend 104-103LBD Paddlers watch carefully for freighter traffic as you come around Nine-Mile Point, a particularly tight bend of the river. There is a possible campsite created in a small shelf of sand that seems to get regenerated year after year in a notable location next to the New
Baton Rouge to Venice
104 RBD Nine-Mile Point A throbbing Entergy power plant dominates 9-Mile Point, but you can find camping there on a low sandbar that emerges below 8 NO gage. There is a another possible stopping place (that would be a good picnic site, and possible campsite) across the river created in
Baton Rouge to Venice
104.3 LBD Batture Houses The Batture Houses are a string of thirteen houses on the riverside of the levee. They are the last homes on the batture between Baton Rouge and the Gulf of Mexico (according to historian Oliver Houck). Before the 1950’s, the east bank batture was
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104.2 LBD Ochsner Medical Center As you round Avondale Bend five miles upstream you will be met by a glorious view of the Huey P. Long Bridge and the Ochsner Medical Center just downstream beyond. Poison Ivy got out of control? Feeling a fever you can’t get rid
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104.8 RBD T.T. Barge Coatings, Inc One of the nastiest smelling locations along the Lower Mississippi. The overspray from this facility might cause you to gag and give you headaches if you pass too closely. Give wide berth, especially in south, southeast or east wind.
Baton Rouge to Venice
105 LBD - Camp Parapet & Parapet Line The Parapet Line (1861 - 1862), Confederate earthworks built in the Metairie area along present-day Causeway Boulevard, with Camp Parapet at the southern terminus. The 1.5 mile long works were unfinished when the Union captured the city in April 1862. Camp
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106.1 Huey P. Long Bridge The Huey P. Long Bridge carries both autos and trains, and it is the second to last bridge on the entire Mississippi River system. Named after the infamous Louisiana governor Huey P. Long “Kingfish” whose populist rule lasted between 1928 and 1932. He served
Baton Rouge to Venice
106.1 RBD - Fort Banks Fort Banks (1861-1865), first established in 1861 as an unnamed Confederate fort on the orders of MG Mansfield Lovell for 90 men and six 32 pounders. Captured by Adm. David Farragut's Union naval forces in April 1862 and made a part of
Baton Rouge to Venice
105.2 LBD Zito Fleeting. LLC/Intercoastal Marine Repairs, Inc., Mooring
Baton Rouge to Venice
106.4 LBD National Maintenance and Repair of Louisiana, Inc., Mooring