East Feliciana Parish, LA Gravel and Landscape Rock Delivery
Louisiana Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone and aggregate in East Feliciana Parish, LA. The local base size is 610 limestone, the dense graded material that carries stone dust up to about two inches and packs hard under a drive or a pad.
Across the loess bluffs above the Mississippi, the ground is wind laid silt. It is deep and easily worked, and it moves when it is wet.
Plan around the weather and the work goes better.
Materials Delivered in East Feliciana Parish
Material arrives by dump truck and tips in one pile. Choose the size by what the job needs, then order it by the ton or by the yard.
610 is the size Louisiana DOTD specifies in Section 1003 of the Louisiana Standard Specifications for Roads and Bridges. Subsection 1003.01 carries the soundness and abrasion requirements, and a source has to meet Section 1003 to be listed on the department's approved materials list.
The same 610 designation covers crushed limestone and recycled Portland cement concrete. Louisiana permits crushed concrete as a Class II base course material.
Washed stone is the other half of the list. #4 Crushed Stone is the coarse clean size, roughly 1 1/2 inch, for heavy drainage and stabilizing soft ground.
#8 Crushed Stone and #89 Crushed Stone run finer, for drainage details and paver work.
Sand and soil round out an order. Mason Sand is the finest washed sand, for mortar and block work.
Garden Soil is a blended planting soil, and raised beds suit ground that sits wet.
Choosing the Right Material
East Baton Rouge Parish and West Feliciana Parish sit on the same loess bluffs above the Mississippi. The ground is the same wind laid silt, deep, fine and easily eroded.
There is no ground difference between them to weigh. So the choice comes down to the job in front of you, not the parish line on the map.
Start with what the surface has to do. A drive or a pad needs a base that binds and compacts, which is 610 limestone or crushed concrete.
A drainage run needs clean stone with the fines washed out, which is drain rock or #57.
A bed or a border needs a surface dressing that nothing has to compact onto, which is river rock or Natural Pea Gravel. A planting bed needs the growing layer, which is top soil or garden soil.
Where the two meet, order both. Base course first, then the clean stone or the soil that finishes the job.
Ground Conditions Across East Feliciana Parish
The ground across the loess bluffs is wind laid silt, dropped along the east side of the Mississippi valley. It takes water readily and then carries it.
That is the opposite of the clay problem found elsewhere in Louisiana. Water moving through fine silt cuts channels fast, and a drive built across a slope becomes the channel.
Bare silt gullies more readily than almost any other soil in the state. Bluff retreat and slope wash follow wherever the cover is off the ground.
Drainage is the layer that has to work here. Clean stone with the fines washed out lets water pass instead of holding it against a foundation or a slab.
Work goes on year round. Wet silt will not compact, and it moves when it is wet, so a base placed on soft ground will not hold.
Angular stone holds a bank, and rounded stone does not. RipRap is the angular material for bank and shoreline armour and slope protection.
Large River Rock is a decorative cobble for dry creek beds and low banks.
Delivery Across East Feliciana 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 first.
A dump truck then arrives and tips the material in one pile. Have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck gets there.
Think about the pile itself. It has to sit somewhere it will not block a door, a gate or a driveway, and somewhere a truck can reach and leave.
Delivery covers Jackson, Clinton, Slaughter, Wilson, Norwood and Ethel, along with the rest of East Feliciana Parish.
Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in East Feliciana Parish
Louisiana Rock Supply delivers 610 limestone, clean stone sizes, sand, fill and soil to drives, pads, drainage runs, beds and building sites across East Feliciana Parish. Order online by the ton or by the yard, size the load with the calculator, and pick your delivery date at checkout.