River Log section: Baton Rouge to Venice
Baton Rouge to Venice
229.1 RBD Baton Rouge City Wharf: Community Coffee If the wind is blowing directly across the river when you are loading in or taking out at Glass Beach you might detect the distinct aroma of roasting coffee beans. This is not a delusion. Amidst all of the other caustic
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229 LBD Glass Beach Best start place, end place and resupply place in the Baton Rouge area. Possible camp spot, if needed, but popular urban area. There is a paved public ramp just downstream from the Interstate 10 Bridge, at mile 229 on the East bank. On the maps it
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229 - 228.5 LBD Lower Baton Rouge Anchorage Freighters sometimes drop anchors and remain stationary here awaiting their turn to approach docks and load or unload their cargoes. When you see these designated areas on the USACE 2007 Maps you will know for certain that they are anchored and
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229 LBD Old Municipal Dock Directly below the Glass Beach boat ramp sits an abandoned monument of crumbling concrete and graffiti. The old Baton Rouge Municipal Dock was completed in 1926 and once handled ocean-going cargo with a 12-ton locomotive crane. However, by 1968 the dock was outdated and its
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The I-10 (New) Bridge Louisiana is the land of massive continuous steel truss bridges. The local geography where the land is very close to sea level combined with ocean going ships traveling the Mississippi River forces the bridges to rise up over 150 feet in the air, then cross the
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Contributing Writers: * * Wolf E. Staudinger * Michael Orr * Paul Orr * Mark River Peoples Mary Ann Sternberg: Mississippi River Road The Mississippi River Road is a familiar place to locals and a magnet for visitors. It’s that legendary corridor running a hundred or so miles between New Orleans and Baton Rouge,
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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
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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
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35.2 LBD - Bass Enterprises This oil field production facility stored crude oil from the oil field just behind it in tanks before being loaded onto barges for transport. Hurricane Katrina damaged the facility causing 3,780,000 gallons of crude oil to spill into the surrounding environment. It
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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
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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
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55.5 LBD - United Bulk Terminal United Bulk Terminal is a coal export terminal owned by Oiltanking. The facility sits on 1,134 acres and is one of the largest dry-bulk terminals in the United States. 3,500,000 tons of material can be stored at the facility and