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Mile 169.3 - LBD E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.

169.3 LBD E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.

Mile 169.8 - LBD Ormet Primary Alumina Corp

169.8 LBD Ormet Primary Alumina Corp

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Mile 170.0 - LBD Burnside Terminal and Burnside Alumina Refinery

170 LBD Burnside Terminal and Burnside Alumina Refinery Impala Warehousing’s Burnside Terminal is the most recently constructed coal export terminal on the lower Mississippi. Burnside Terminal can handle coal, bauxite and alumina. Almatis recently acquired the Burnside Alumina Refinery from Ormet Primary Aluminum Corporation. The facility is right behind

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Mile 170.7 - LBD Houmas House Plantation and Gardens

170.7 LBD Houmas House Plantation and Gardens Paddlers could possibly make landing at primitive boat ramp here, over the levee from the Houmas House Plantation and Gardens. But be sure to remove your vessel completely from the water, or leave someone to guard. High waves crash along these shores,

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Mile 170.9 - LBD River Cement Sales Co., Burnside Terminal Wharf

170.9 LBD River Cement Sales Co., Burnside Terminal Wharf

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Mile 171.8 - LBD GETCO, Dry Bulk Transfer Moorings

171.8 LBD GETCO, Dry Bulk Transfer Moorings

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Mile 173.4 - RBD Triad Nitrogen Wharf

173.4 RBD Triad Nitrogen Wharf

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Mile 173.5 - RBD CF Industries

173.5 RBD CF Industries CF Industries sprawling 1,400 acre Nitrogen Complex is touted as the largest nitrogen operation in North America. The facility produces anhydrous ammonia, granular urea and urea ammonium nitrate solution for agricultural and industrial use. In 2000 the facility had an explosion that killed 3

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Mile 173.7 - LBD Private House and Boat Ramp

173.7 LBD Private House and Boat Ramp A cabin is tucked into the woods with a private stone boat ramp composed of rocks and laid out at an upstream angle into directly into the rip-rap. You can eddy out into a small inlet directly below this cabin, and find

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Mile 175.2 - Donaldsonville Boat Ramp

175.2 Donaldsonville Boat Ramp Even though there is a Boat Ramp marked on the USACE 2007 Lower Mississippi River Maps at Donaldsonville, it was ruined by the sediment effect of the 2011 flood, and the short remaining peice of concrete ramp exposed does not reach the river at most

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Mile 175.3 - 175.3 - 174 RBD Donaldsonville Fleeting

175.3 - 174 RBD Donaldsonville Fleeting

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Mile 177.0 - RBD - 174 LBD Smoke Bend Crossing

177 RBD - 174 LBD Smoke Bend Crossing As you come around Eighty-One Mile Point stay wide for the safest route of travel away from freighter traffic. Or cut the point tight and hug the inside of the bend. Maintain constant vigilance as you paddle, and monitor VHF Channel 67.