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 chemicals used in the papermaking, mining, petroleum, steel, power generation, food and beverage, metalworking and aluminum refining industries. On the downriver side of Nalco; Evonik Stockhausen manufactures chemicals and polymers for textile, water treatment, skin care, and agricultural applications. The company also provides absorbent polymers for baby diapers, feminine care, and adult care. Nalco Garyville Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013 in pounds: Air: 2,587; Water: 8,129 and Evonik Stockhausen: Air: 8,668. (Paul Orr)

Angelina/Willow Bend Greenspace

Angelina, Forty-Eight Mile Point and Belle Point create a refreshing stretch of forests and relative wildness as the big river swirls around Willow Bend. You can find low/,medium camps/picnic sites in sevral places, and a possible high water camp (up to 15NO) at the Marquez Eddy. Viewed from above, this insignificant slice of wetlands and bottomland hardwood forest pales in comparison to the cypress tupelo swamps stretching southward toward the Gulf and northwards towards Lake Ponchartrain.

143.4 LBD Marquez

Good low/med water picnic or camp place, highest sandbar might be dry up to 17NO.

The cut-out bank at Marquez creates some powerful eddies that sometimes reach into the main channel and can force you into oncoming freighters or cause you to get spun around, depending which side of the eddy line you find yourself in. You can find low and medium camps/picnic sites on the sandbars strewn along the Marquez Eddy. The low bars are 4WD accessible in low water. At the bottom of the eddy one bar reaches up higher than the others. This high bar stays dry up to 15NO, maybe even up to 17NO at the edge of the forest. More sandbars are strewn up in high locations above the rip-rap between the Marquez (143.4 LBD) and Belle Point (142.4) lights, making this a good bet for highwater shelter.