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, acetylene, hydrogen cyanide, acid, acrylonitrile, ammonium sulfate, and oxygen. Today Cornerstone Chemical Company produces 2,500,000,000 pounds of acrylonitrile, hydrogen cyanide, melamine, oleum, and sulfuric acid at the complex every year. Evonik Industries has a plant in the Fortier Complex that produces methyl methacrylate and methacrylic acid. Kemira Group has a plant in the Fortier Complex that produces acrylamide. Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013 in pounds: Cornerstone Chemical Company Air: 267,448; Water: 31,891. Evonik Industries: Air: 18,032. Kemira: Air: 288.
Louis Armstrong International Airport
After passing under the Luling Bridge, and Destrehan, and rounding St. Rose Landing and heading downstream through Fairview Crossing you have been hearing and seeing lots of jet planes taking off and landing over the levee and the houses and trees downriver left bank descending, looking downstream into beyond the Kenner Bend over the East Bank. This is the Louis Armstrong International Airport, Louisiana’s biggest and busiest airport. If you are flying out of New Orleans after journey’s end, this is where you will be boarding your plane. The main terminal is about a half mile from river’s edge as you come into Kenner. If you’ve run out of time on your Mississippi River adventure, and are needing to immediately get to the airport, you could do it now, from Kenner. This would not be a very graceful exit. You would be missing the amazing Port of New Orleans, the flavor of the French Quarter, the wild beauty of Bohemia, and the transcendental final run down through the marshes to the Gulf of Mexico. But you would make your plane. Our advice: don’t make a plane reservation until after you reach the Gulf. It will be more costly, but the freedom of river time will make this more than worth it. Don’t mix river time with land time. Best option, have someone pick you up in Venice after trip end, and don’t fly out at all. Once thought of as the “Gateway to the Caribbean,” the Aéroport international Louis Armstrong de La Nouvelle-Orléans still runs daily flights to Panama, Dominican Republic and Mexico, as well as Toronto Canada. Most flights however are interstate within the continental US. It is the 2nd lowest airport in the world. Only Amsterdam Airport is lower.