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Mile 101.9 - RBD - National Gypsum Co.

101.9 RBD - National Gypsum Co. National Gypsum Co. gypsum board (sheetrock) production plant. Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013 in pounds: National Gypsum Co.: Air: 95,304

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Mile 102.0 - RBD - Kinder Morgan Seven Oaks Terminal

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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Mile 103.1 - RBD - Cargill Westwego

103.1 RBD - Cargill Westwego A Cargill grain terminal with 4 loading spouts in lower berth section, 2 load spouts in upper berth section, and a 4,300,000 bushel capacity.

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Mile 104.4 - RBD - Nine Mile Point Power Plant

104.4 RBD - Nine Mile Point Power Plant Entergy Louisiana’s Ninemile Point plant has been powering New Orleans and southeast Louisiana since the 1950s. The facility comprises five dual-fuel (primarily natural gas but can be run on fuel oil) boiler units, the oldest of which came online in

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Mile 107.7 - RBD - Avondale Ship Yard

107.7 RBD - Avondale Ship Yard Avondale Shipyards was founded in 1938 as Avondale Marine Ways. Initially the yard built barges and a few tugs but when the war effort started, it expanded to build large tugs and small cargo ships for the U.S. Maritime Commission. After the

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Mile 108.2 - RBD - International Matex Tank Terminals (IMTT) Avondale

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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Mile 114.5 - RBD - Fortier Manufacturing Complex

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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Mile 117.6 - RBD - ADM Growmark Ama

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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Mile 118.6 - LBD - International Matex Tank Terminals (IMTT) and Shell

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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Mile 120.0 - RBD - Monsanto, OxyChem, and Air Products

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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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.

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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