River Log section: Birdsfoot Delta
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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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117.6 RBD - ADM Growmark Ama Arthur Daniels Midland grain terminal with 4 loading spouts and a 5,500,000 bushel capacity.
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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 Monsanto produces the herbicides glyphosate and dicamba at it’s luling plant, including glyphosate based Roundup. Dicamba is a selective herbicide in the chlorophenoxy family of chemicals. Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf weeds and
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120.5 LBD - ADM Growmark Destrehan Arthur Daniels Midland grain terminal with 7 loading spouts and a 5,500,000 bushel capacity.
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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
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126.9 LBD - Shell Norco Chemical Plant West Site and Momentive Specialty Chemicals The Shell Norco Chemical Plant West Site was built in 1955. The East and West plants together process gas feeds and liquid feeds to produce nearly 3 billion pounds of ethylene and 1.4 billion pounds
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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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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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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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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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129.4 LBD - Little Gypsy Power Plant Natural gas fired power plant owned by Entergy.