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Mile 150.4 - LBD - ADM Growmark St. Elmo
150.4 LBD - ADM Growmark St. Elmo ADM Growmark’s St. Elmo grain terminal is just upriver from Paulina, LA. It has a 2,000,000 bushel capacity
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Mile 160.4 - 160.4 - Mosaic Uncle Sam
160.4 - Mosaic Uncle Sam Mosaic’s Uncle Sam plant brings in phosphate rock from Florida and Peru. The phosphate rock is then combined with sulfuric acid to produce phosphoric acid which is shipped to Mosaic’s Faustina plant just up the river. The Uncle Sam facility sits on
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Mile 160.9 - 160.9 - SunCoke Energy Convent Marine Terminal
160.9 - SunCoke Energy Convent Marine Terminal SunCoke Energy just bought this coal export terminal from Raven Energy. The terminal has a unique oval shaped rail spur that surrounds the facility allowing coal trains to simply pull through to unload and end up going out back the way they
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Mile 161.5 - LBD - Occidental Chemical Convent
161.5 LBD - Occidental Chemical Convent This Occidental Chemical (Oxy) plant produces Chlorine, Sodium Hydroxide, Potassium Hydroxide and Ethylene Dichloride. Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013 in pounds: Occidental Chemical Convent: Air: 15,319 Water: 4
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Mile 160.7 - RBD thru 158 RBD - St James Petroleum Terminals
160.7 RBD thru 158 RBD - St James Petroleum Terminals It’s difficult to see it from a canoe or kayak but for almost 3 miles along the West Bank (RBD) are a continuous series of petroleum terminals making up one of the nations most important crude oil hubs.
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Mile 163.0 - LBD - Nucor Steel
163 LBD - Nucor Steel Nucor Steel, today the largest producer of steel in the United States, recently built this direct reduced iron plant making it one of the newest in the industrial corridor. Nucor plans to produce 2,500,000 tons of iron at the plant. Iron ore is
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Mile 163.8 - LBD - Zen-Noh Grain
163.8 LBD - Zen-Noh Grain ZEN-NOH (?? Zenn??), National Federation of Agricultural Co-operative Associations (??????????? Zenkoku N?gy? Ky?d? Kumiai Reng?kai?), is a federation of agricultural cooperatives in Japan formed in 1972. ZEN-NOH consists of 1,173 agricultural cooperatives and federations that in 2004 had a combined revenue of
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Mile 167.0 - RBD - Mosaic Faustina and American Styrenics
167 RBD - Mosaic Faustina and American Styrenics The Mosaic Company’s Faustina plant sits on a 2,850-acre site and was owned by Gulf Oil Corp. between 1967 and 1972, the Williams Co. between 1972 and 1986, Freeport-McMoran Corp. from 1986 to 1983, IMC Global from 1993 to 2004,
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Mile 168.3 - LBD - Motiva Convent Refinery
168.3 LBD - Motiva Convent Refinery Motiva Convent Refinery is a 50/50 joint venture between affiliates of Shell Oil Company and Saudi Aramco. The refinery is designed to process approximately 225,000 barrels per day of crude oil. The refinery produces conventional petroleum products and refinery grade sulfur.
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Mile 169.2 - LBD - Chemours
169.2 LBD - Chemours Formerly E I DuPont De Nemours, the Chemours facility was originally built in 1968 and regenerates spent sulfuric acid. Oil refineries use sulfuric acid to produce gasoline which leaves a large amount of “spent” sulfuric acid waste. This waste material is converted back into sulfuric
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Mile 170.0 - LBD - Burnside Terminal and Burnside Alumina Refinery
170 LBD - Burnside Terminal and Burnside Alumina Refinery Impala Warehousing’s Burnside Terminal is the most recently constructed coal export terminal on the lower Mississippi. Burnside Terminal can handle coal, bauxite and alumina. Almatis recently acquired the Burnside Alumina Refinery from Ormet Primary Aluminum Corporation. The facility is right
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Mile 173.5 - RBD - CF Industries
173.5 RBD - CF Industries CF Industries sprawling 1,400 acre Nitrogen Complex is touted as the largest nitrogen operation in North America. The facility produces anhydrous ammonia, granular urea and urea ammonium nitrate solution for agricultural and industrial use. In 2000 the facility had an explosion that killed