River Log section: Baton Rouge to Venice
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89.6 LBD - Former Kaiser Aluminum Site In 1951 Kaser Aluminum built an aluminum smelting plant in Chalmette, La. taking advantage of inexpensive natural gas, government incentives and a high demand for aluminum from the U.S. government stockpile. Alumina (aluminum oxide), made from bauxite at the Kaiser plant
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100 LBD - New Orleans Container Terminal Modern container facility with six gantry cranes and 640,000 annual Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit (TEU) capacity located on a 65 acre site. There is 2,000 feet of berth space able to accommodate vessels with 45 feet of draft. An intermodal rail terminal
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101.4 RBD - Blackwater Midstream Westwego Blackwater Midstream’s (a wholly owned subsidiary of American Midstream) Westwego Terminal site consists of approximately 1 million barrels of storage capacity ranging in size from 5,000 to 100,000 barrels. The terminal handles caustic soda, lube-oil additives, oil-field drilling fluids, vegetable
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102 RBD - Kinder Morgan Seven Oaks Terminal Kinder Morgan Seven Oaks Terminal is situated on 173 acres and has 19 tanks for total storage capacity of 32,266,080 gallons. It handles primary organics, organic intermediates, organic end chemicals, inorganic chemicals, plasticizers Petroleum – fuel, refined products, crude oil, ethanol,
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107.7 RBD - Avondale Ship Yard As you come around 12-Mile Point and the Huey P. Long Bridge appears downstream, paddlers will be amazed by the largest drydock yet seen on the Lower Mississippi River. If it seems as long as an ocean-going freighter, guess what: it is! This
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108.2 RBD - International Matex Tank Terminals (IMTT) Avondale IMTT Avondale is a 100 acre bulk liquid terminal with 82 tanks for 1.1 million barrels of total capacity. Tanks range in size from 3,000 to 80,000 barrels. The terminal handles vegetable and other natural oils, specialty
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114.5 RBD - Fortier Manufacturing Complex Cornerstone Chemical Company’s Fortier Manufacturing Complex is located on 800 acres of the former Orange Grove Plantation which was built by Eugene Fortier in 1786. Construction of the Fortier Manufacturing Complex began in 1952 by American Cyanamid for the production of ammonia,
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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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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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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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124.6 LBD - New Sarpy Just on the other side of the sprawling facility from Norco, New Sarpy is located adjacent to the Valero oil refinery. After lightning ignited a poorly maintained gasoline tank that resulted in a 13 hour fire, residents of New Sarpy protested and demanded relocation.
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125.5 LBD - Shell, Motiva, Valero, Union Carbide, and Rain CII In 1916 the New Orleans Refining Company purchased 366 acres of rice, indigo, and sugar cane fields from the Good Hope Plantation and began operating it as an oil terminal later that year. In 1919, the company provided