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Mile 120.5 - LBD - ADM Growmark Destrehan

120.5 LBD - ADM Growmark Destrehan Arthur Daniels Midland grain terminal with 7 loading spouts and a 5,500,000 bushel capacity.

Mile 125.5 - LBD - Shell, Motiva, Valero, Union Carbide, and Rain CII

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

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Mile 126.9 - LBD - Shell Norco Chemical Plant West Site and Momentive Specialty Chemicals

126.9 LBD - Shell Norco Chemical Plant West Site and Momentive Specialty Chemicals The Shell Norco Chemical Plant West Site was built in 1955. Momentive Specialty Chemicals (when it was Resolution Performance Products) purchased Shell’s resin unit in 2000. It produces epoxy resins. Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013

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Mile 128.0 - RBD - Dow St Charles Operations

128 RBD - Dow St Charles Operations Union Carbide Corporation began operating a petrochemical plant near Taft, La. in 1966. Dow Chemical Company acquired Union Carbide Corporation in 1999 and the facility now operates under the Dow logo. The facility currently consists of a 2,000-acre petrochemical manufacturing complex with

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Mile 128.4 - RBD - Air Products, Air Liquide, Praxair, Galata, Koch Nitrogen

128.4 RBD - Air Products, Air Liquide, Praxair, Galata, Koch Nitrogen Air Products, Air Liquide, and Praxair are companies that operate facilities that supply industrial air products to larger industrial facilities. Most of the larger industrial complexes will have at least one of these facilities which supply liquid nitrogen,

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Mile 128.9 - RBD - Occidental Chemical Taft

128.9 RBD - Occidental Chemical Taft Occidental Chemical (OxyChem) produces chlorine, caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and caustic potash (potassium hydroxide). Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013 in pounds: Occidental Chemical Taft: Air: 105 Water: 209

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Mile 129.4 - LBD - Little Gypsy Power Plant

129.4 LBD - Little Gypsy Power Plant Natural gas fired power plant owned by Entergy.

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Mile 129.5 - RBD - Waterford 3

129.5 RBD - Waterford 3 Owned by Entergy, the Waterford 3 nuclear power plant has one Combustion Engineering two-loop pressurized water reactor. The plant produces 1,218 megawatts of electricity since the site's last refuel in October 2009. It has a dry ambient pressure containment building.

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Mile 129.8 - RBD - Waterford 1 & 2

129.8 RBD - Waterford 1 & 2 Energy owns two small natural gas fired power plants here, just upriver from Waterford 3.

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Mile 132.4 - LBD - ArcelorMittal (Bayou Steel)

132.4 LBD - ArcelorMittal (Bayou Steel) ArcelorMittal, formerly Bayou Steel, produces steel materials including billets, equal leg angles, unequal leg angles, flats, channels, standard beams and wide flange beams. There is also an automobile shredder and barge wrecking service at the facility. Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013 in pounds:

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Mile 135.7 - LBD - DuPont Pontchartrain Works

135.7 LBD - DuPont Pontchartrain Works This DuPont Pontchartrain Works contains two plants, one that makes neoprene rubber, the other makes Kevlar fiber. DuPont invented neoprene, a synthetic chlorinated rubber, in 1930. DuPont invented Kevlar, a para-aramid synthetic fiber, in 1965. In 2014 DuPont sold the neoprene plant to

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Mile 138.7 - LBD - Globalplex

138.7 LBD - Globalplex Formerly a sugar mill, the Globalplex Intermodal Terminal is a public terminal -owned by the Port of South Louisiana and operated by Associated Terminals- for both vessels and barges that provides handling and storage for bulk, breakbulk, and containerized cargos.