610 Limestone, Sand and Gravel Delivery in Concordia Parish, LA
Louisiana Rock Supply sells gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Concordia Parish, LA, to contractors building pads and to homeowners fixing a drive. Both groups ask for the same material first: 610 limestone, the dense graded base this part of Louisiana builds on.
The ground here is recent alluvium, silty clay and clay loam laid down by the rivers, heavy and slow to drain. That shapes every material choice below.
Ground Conditions Across Concordia Parish
Across the Mississippi and Red River alluvial plains, the land is flat and the water table sits high. Clay will not take water, so rain stands until it is ditched or pumped away.
Sandier natural levee ridges along the old channels are the ground that drains by itself. Backswamp clay in the low ground between them holds water longest.
That matters for what you build. A pad on low ground needs a fill that compacts, and a base course needs a drainage layer under it that actually moves water.
Erosion here comes from river and bayou bank cutting, sheet flow across bare clay after a hard rain, and ditch and canal scour. Riprap and large river rock both have a place, but only riprap is angular enough to lock together and hold a bank.
Work runs year round. Heavy rain and saturated clay, not cold, are what stop a compaction pass.
Materials Delivered in Concordia Parish
Louisiana DOTD specifies aggregate quality in Section 1003 of the Louisiana Standard Specifications for Roads and Bridges. Soundness and abrasion requirements sit in Subsection 1003.01, and a source has to meet Section 1003 to be listed on the department's approved materials list.
Base materials
610 Limestone, also called #610, 610 base or CR610, is the dense graded Louisiana base size. It carries everything from stone dust up to about two inches, so the fines bind it and it hardens as it is rolled.
Use it for driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads, and the compacted layer under flatwork. Crushed Concrete, sold locally as recycled base or 610 concrete, is recycled Portland cement concrete crushed and screened to a dense graded size with the fines left in.
Louisiana permits it as a Class II base course material.
Washed stone
#57 Limestone is the clean open graded size, about 3/4 inch with no fines, for a driveway surface, drainage and concrete work. #67 Stone runs a little finer, for drainage trenches, pipe bedding and concrete.
#4 Crushed Stone is coarse and clean at roughly 1 1/2 inch, for heavy drainage, erosion work and wet ground. Drain Rock is washed clean with the fines taken out, for French drains, foundation perimeter drains, drywells and downspout runs.
#8 Crushed Stone and #89 Crushed Stone are the small clean sizes, for fine drainage, paver bedding and paver joints. Stone Screenings are the crusher fines that pass the finest screen, a bedding and joint material and a packing top for a path.
Sand
Mason Sand is the finest washed sand, for mortar, brick and block work and a smooth paver setting bed. Washed Sand, also called river sand, beds pipe and flatwork, sets pavers and backfills where a clean fine material is wanted.
Soil, fill and mulch
Select Fill raises low ground and builds a pad up out of the water. It compacts rather than settling, so it goes under a base course and not under a lawn.
River silt and spillway dirt are Louisiana yard terms for grade raising material in the same family.
Top Soil is the growing layer for lawns, beds and grade repair, over ground that is more often heavy clay than anything a lawn wants. Garden Soil is a blended planting soil for raised beds and vegetable gardens, which matter here because the natural ground sits wet.
Shredded Mulch dresses beds, tree rings and slopes. Cypress mulch is the Louisiana name buyers use for the same storefront product, and the species is not specified.
Decorative stone
Natural Pea Gravel is rounded pea sized gravel for paths, dog runs, play areas and pipe bedding. River Rock is rounded decorative stone for beds, borders and ground cover where nothing has to compact.
Large River Rock is rounded cobble for dry creek beds, decorative edging and low banks. Rounded stone does not lock together, so it is not bank armour.
RipRap is the angular stone for bank and shoreline armour, canal and bayou edges, and slope protection.
Delivery Across Concordia Parish
You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you order.
A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Have the drop spot clear and reachable, with room for the truck to pull in and out.
Delivery covers Vidalia, Ferriday, Clayton, Monterey and Acme, along with the rest of Concordia Parish.
Choosing the Right Material
Avoyelles Parish and Catahoula Parish both sit on the same Mississippi and Red River alluvial plains ground as Concordia Parish. The soil is the same recent alluvium: silty clay and clay loam, with sandier natural levee ridges and backswamp clay in the low ground between them.
Because the ground is the same, the material logic is the same. Start with whether water has somewhere to go.
If it does not, a fill that compacts goes down first, then 610 limestone as the base.
Where a base sits over wet clay, a clean drainage layer under it keeps water from pooling against the fines. Riprap handles a bank that is cutting; rounded stone does not.
Order 610 Limestone, Sand and Gravel in Concordia Parish
Louisiana Rock Supply delivers base, washed stone, sand, soil and decorative rock across Concordia Parish for driveways, pads, drainage, raised beds and bank work. Order online, size your load by the ton or yard, and pick your delivery date at checkout.