River Log section: Baton Rouge to Venice
Baton Rouge to Venice
20.1 LBD - Fort St. Philip Make landing and look for the remains of the Old Fort St. Philip site (downstream of Bolivar Point). The high ground here would make for great low/med water camping -- if not for all the cattle running around this point and the
Baton Rouge to Venice
26.7 LBD - Chevron Pipeline Company Empire Terminal This terminal is used to unload crude oil from barges and tankers before being sent up to refineries. Hurricane Katrina caused approximately 1,400,000 gallons of crude oil to spill from two of the tanks into the surrounding environment. The
Baton Rouge to Venice
29.1 RBD - Daybrook Fisheries Just over the levee in Empire is a menhaden processing plant. The plant processes menhaden (locally called pogies) into fish oil and fish meal. You may see the iconic blue and yellow boats, carrying two net tenders piggyback, motoring up or down the river
Baton Rouge to Venice
33.2 LBD Bayou LaMoques/Balandock Canal Three possible openings flowing towards gulf. Witnessed airboat pass through one in Nov 2015.
Baton Rouge to Venice
35.2 LBD - Bass Enterprises In 1973 a major flood crisis occurred at Nairn, Louisiana, on the west bank of the Mississippi about 60 miles below New Orleans. On April 26, 1973, late in the evening, a bank in front of the levee began to slough, and by dawn
Baton Rouge to Venice
39 RBD - Freeport Sulphur Company The Freeport Sulphur Company established logistics, refining, storage and shipping operations here to support its nearby Frasch Process sulphur mine at Lake Grande Ecaille. The Grande Ecaille sulphur mine, about 10 miles to the southwest out in the marsh, was the largest sulphur deposit
Baton Rouge to Venice
51.6 LBD - Plaquemines Parish Lock-up A boondoggle to the tune of $100,000,000 of FEMA money. Former Sheriff Jiffy Hinge had this state-of-the-art lock-up built with a capacity of 900 inmates, one of the largest parish lock-ups in the state. Plaquemines parish is one of the least
Baton Rouge to Venice
70.25 RBD - Oakville Oakville, a small African-American community founded by slaves newly freed from area plantations, lies on the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish. in the 1980s the Industrial Pipe landfill was opened adjacent to the community to dispose of construction debris. Over time the landfill obtained permits
Baton Rouge to Venice
78.1 LBD - Fort St. Marie Various Forts guarded the City of New Orleans from advancement up the Mississippi River. But being such a big river, protection could not be insured unless you built two forts, one across the river from each other. This is the case here within
Baton Rouge to Venice
78.1 RBD - Fort St. Leon Fort St. Leon was the name of a French fort, as well as an American fort, each established at a section on the Mississippi River below New Orleans known as English Turn. The French fort was begun in 1749 but was abandoned by
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87.5 LBD - East Chalmette The neighborhoods on the east side of the City of Chalmette abut the Valero Petroleum Refinery and the Murphy Oil petroleum storage facility which share a large industrial footprint. Residents had become accustomed to the odors and noise of the facilities. Then during Hurricane
Baton Rouge to Venice
89.1 LBD - Rain CII Chalmette Calciner Commissioned in 1968 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.