River Log section: Baton Rouge to Venice
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142RBD Willow Bend Willow Bend rewards paddlers with a three mile stretch of no industry and some attractive all weather, all water level sandbars. There is barge fleeting within Willow Bend, however, and like other blind corners you will have to stay awake and alert for oncoming freighters, tugs, and
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142.3 RBD Wego Paddlers can make landing and find possible picnicking and camping at Wego, which spreads out in quiet forested area between 143 and 142. You will see two obvious openings in low and medium waters, but all sand goes underwater in higher river levels (12-17NO) leaving nothing
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142.4 LBD Forty-Eight Mile Point/ Belle Point Forty-Eight Mile Point was once a beautiful wild location with bountiful sandbars and good camping at all water levels. Unfortunately this has all been destroyed by a vigorous and sloppy barge maintenance and fleeting service which has claimed this once pristine place
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143.6 LBD Nalco Garyville and Evonik Stockhausen Nalco first opened a production facility in Garyville in 1970. Today, the Garyville complex comprises more than 220-acres and produces industrial water treatment products, such as corrosion and scale inhibitors, used in boilers and cooling towers; wastewater treatment products; and process chemicals
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144 RBD Angelina Landing Angelina Landing sits within Angelina Bend. Paddlers can access a small steep sandbar at Angelina during low/med water levels, and find a thick willow forest behind. This would be a possible camp site for a a small group up to 10NO/20BR. Very private. No
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144.5 Petroleum Fuel & Terminal
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144.9 LBD Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals
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145.4 Kaiser Bauxite For some reason bauxite (aluminum) factories like to situate themselves in the vicinity of big bridges in this stretch of the river. First we paddled by Burnside Alumina Refinery above the Sunshine Bridge, and now Kaiser Bauxite below the Grammercy Bridge. The other interesting connection is
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145.4 LBD Noranda Alumina Gramercy The orange facility just downriver from Rain CII is the Noranda Alumina refinery. The orange color comes from bauxite (aluminum ore). Construction on the alumina refinery began in 1957 with the first shipment of alumina occurring two years later. Ocean going freighters supply the
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145.6 LBD Rain CII Gramercy Calciner Commissioned in 1972 by Kaiser Aluminum; the plant was built to calcine (heat in rotary kilns) petroleum coke in order to produce carbon that is made into aluminum smelter anodes (electrodes). It has one rotary kiln with 230,000 ton/yr capacity. The
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145.7 LBD CCI-Carbon, Gramercy Plant Coke Dock
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145.9 Gramercy Bridge (Veteran’s Memorial Bridge) The Veteran’s Memorial Gramercy Bridge carries LA State Highway 3213 over the Mississippi with a 3,101 foot long Continuous Steel Truss Through Deck. On the river, main channel traffic uses the 750 foot wide center “channel span.” Paddlers can use