River Log section: Baton Rouge to Venice
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118 RBD - 115 LBD Fairview Crossing Paddlers can follow this crossing once safely underneath and past the Luling Bridge, if the coast is clear. Otherwise maintain a line of travel in between main channel and the Kenner Anchorages. Watch for off-channel traffic between anchored freighters and fleeted barges tight
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118.7 RBD Davis Crevasse Paddlers in need of seeking shelter from oncoming storms or high winds would find refuge in the rectangular peaceful harbor carved into the West Bank at 118.7RBD. The banks are soft mud lined with rip-rap, but you could make a landing also within this
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118.6 LBD - International Matex Tank Terminals (IMTT) and Shell IMTT St. Rose is a 1,000 acre bulk liquid (primarily petroleum product) terminal. IMTT has 207 Tanks with 14,750,000 barrels total capacity. Tanks range in size from 40,000 gallons to 500,000 barrels. There are
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118.8 LBD International Matex, St. Rose Terminal, Berths Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 14, and 15 International Matex oversees 15 freighter berths between 118.8 and 118.5 LBD for the purpose of bulk chemical storage and transfer. Bloomberg.com reports that
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119.2 LBD Crescent Towing & Salvage, St. Rose Wharf
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119.3 LBD GNOTS - Reserve, St. Rose East Bank Fleet Mooring
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120 RBD - Monsanto, OxyChem, and Air Products Roundup is one of the most commonly used herbicides in the US. Easy to find, to use, and very effective, it has become the “evil of choice” for weed control. This is nowhere more true than in the jungly conditions of the
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120.5 LBD Bunge Corp North America, Destrehan Elevator Wharf Bunge grain terminal bristles with 8 loading spouts and a 3,900,000 bushel capacity. 120.5 LBD ADM/Growmark Destrehan Elevator Wharf Archer Daniels Midland grain terminal features 7 loading spouts and a 5,500,000 bushel capacity.
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120.7 LBD ARTCO Tulane Destrehan Dry Bulk Transfer and Rose Launch Service, Destrehan Landing
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120.8 RBD Old Luling Ferry Ramp (Defunct) Paddlers can locate primitive access to the town of Luling via old Ferry Landing. A small beach forms at low water levels, within a cut in an otherwise rip-rap landing. If you hit it at the right water level, you can paddle
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121 LBD - Old Pan American Southern Oil Refinery The Pan American Southern Refinery was built on Destrehan Plantation in the early 1900's and produced tar, heating oil, gasoline, lubricating oil, asphalt, and other petroleum products until it was closed in 1958.
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121.6 RBD Hale Boggs - Luling Bridge The monumental cable-stay Hale Boggs - Luling Bridge is constructed of thousands of titanic plates of 1” steel, purposely let to rust, that gives the bridge its signature color of clotted blood. I-310 crosses here from Destrehan to Luling, and making easy