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Mile 139.4 - LBD - Cargill

139.4 LBD - Cargill Cargill’s Terre Haute grain terminal is located just downriver from Marathon. The terminal has 4 load spouts and a 6,000,000 bushel capacity.

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Mile 140.5 - LBD - Marathon Garyville Refinery, Pinnacle Polymers, and Air products and Chemicals

140.5 LBD - Marathon Garyville Refinery, Pinnacle Polymers, and Air products and Chemicals Construction began in 1973 by ECOL, Ltd. and was completed in 1976, when Marathon purchased and started up the plant. Marathon is located on 3,500 acres of former San Francisco Plantation property. Marathon is the

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Mile 143.6 - LBD - Nalco Garyville and Evonik Stockhausen

143.6 LBD - Nalco Garyville and Evonik Stockhausen Nalco first opened a production facility in Garyville in 1970. Today, the Garyville complex comprises more than 220-acres and produces industrial water treatment products, such as corrosion and scale inhibitors, used in boilers and cooling towers; wastewater treatment products; and process

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Mile 145.4 - LBD - Noranda Alumina Gramercy

145.4 LBD - Noranda Alumina Gramercy The orange facility just downriver from Rain CII is the Noranda Alumina refinery. The orange color comes from bauxite (aluminum ore). Construction on the alumina refinery began in 1957 with the first shipment of alumina occurring two years later. Ocean going freighters supply

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Mile 145.6 - LBD - Rain CII Gramercy Calciner

145.6 LBD - Rain CII Gramercy Calciner Commissioned in 1972 by Kaiser Aluminum; the plant was built to calcine (heat in rotary kilns) petroleum coke in order to produce carbon that is made into aluminum smelter anodes (electrodes). It has one rotary kiln with 230,000 ton/yr capacity.

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Mile 146.2 - LBD - Louisiana Sugar Refining (LSR)

146.2 LBD - Louisiana Sugar Refining (LSR) Founded in 1895 by a group of financiers from Gramercy Park, New York on a site called "Faubourg Lapin". First operated as a sugar mill to process sugar cane from Golden Grove Plantation. A refinery was built in 1902 to

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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