River Log section: Baton Rouge to Venice
Baton Rouge to Venice
129.5 LBD Entergy Louisiana, Inc., Little Gypsy Power Plant Natural gas fired power plant owned by Entergy. You will paddle past an attractive inlet which cuts into the forests of Thirty-Five Mile Point. This was carved by Entergy as it wastewater outlet. In low water you will see the
Baton Rouge to Venice
129.5 RBD Waterford 3 Owned by Entergy, the Waterford 3 nuclear power plant has one Combustion Engineering two-loop pressurized water reactor. The plant produces 1,218 megawatts of electricity since the site's last refuel in October 2009. It has a dry ambient pressure containment building.
Baton Rouge to Venice
129.8 RBD Entergy Louisiana, Waterford Steam Electric Plants 1 & 2 Wharf Entergy owns two small natural gas fired power plants here, just upriver from Waterford 3.
Baton Rouge to Venice
130 RBD Killona Landing There is a high shelf of sand West Bank here located in between the Waterford outfall and its towering smokestacks, which might be good dry ground up to medium water (up to 12NO) but who would want to stop here amidst all of the noise and
Baton Rouge to Venice
Hymelia Crevasse 131.5 RBD The crevasse at Hymelia plantation occurred on March 26, 1903, and was the most disastrous break in the levees in that major flood year. The levee at Hymelia had been considered perfectly safe, and it was with real astonishment that an observer reported discovering a
Baton Rouge to Venice
132.4 LBD ArcelorMittal (Bayou Steel) ArcelorMittal, formerly Bayou Steel, produces steel materials including billets, equal leg angles, unequal leg angles, flats, channels, standard beams and wide flange beams. There is also an automobile shredder and barge wrecking service at the facility. ArcelorMittal released 22,686 pounds of toxins into
Baton Rouge to Venice
132.9 LBD Bonnet Carre Crevasse The east bank of the Lower Mississippi, opposite Bonnet Carre Point, was an area where it seemed almost impossible to construct a levee that could withstand a major flood. Levees had crumbled in the area many times, and when the flood of 1850 came
Baton Rouge to Venice
133 RBD Bonnet Carre Point As you round Bonnet Carre Point you enter a five mile section of relative calm before the frenzied industrial storm resumes at the Bonnet Carre Spillway, and Norco/Shell beyond it. There is some fleeting here, and a few small bankside industries, but they seem
Baton Rouge to Venice
133.9 LBD CGB Marine Services Gulf, Repair Wharves and Upper East Bank Fleet Mooring Bonnet Carre/Thirty-Five Mile Point Green Space Paddlers coming around Bonnet Carre Point might receive a refreshing breath of humid salty air, especially in easterly winds. You are now less than five miles from the
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135.7 LBD DuPont Pontchartrain Works This DuPont Pontchartrain Works contains two plants that each produce materials of importance to paddlers: one that makes neoprene rubber, the other makes Kevlar fiber. DuPont invented neoprene, a synthetic chlorinated rubber, in 1930. DuPont invented Kevlar, a para-aramid synthetic fiber, in 1965. In
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137.4 LBD Crescent Ship Service & Weber Marine
Baton Rouge to Venice
136.7 LBD Elmwood Marine Services Repair Wharf and Capital Marine Supply, Triangle Fleet Moorings Both sides of the river are plastered with fleeted barges as you come into Montz Bend around Bonnet Carre Point.