Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Independence, LA

Louisiana Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Independence, LA, with 610 limestone as the base material this market names by number. You order online by the ton or by the yard, and a dump truck tips the load at your site.

Ground here is flatwoods terrace: a sandy or silt loam surface over a dense subsoil that holds water. That shapes what you put down and how much of it.

Materials for Independence Projects

Grading and bed prep start with the growing layer and the fill under it. Independence sits on ground that is often heavy clay below a thin sandy top, so lawns, beds and pads all need material brought in rather than worked from what is already there.

Soil, Fill and Mulch

Top Soil is the growing layer for lawns, beds and grade repair. Spread it where the native ground is too heavy to root into.

Garden Soil is a blended planting soil for raised beds and vegetable gardens. Raised beds matter here, because the natural ground sits wet through the wet season.

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.

Louisiana yards also list river silt and spillway dirt beside it as grade raising material.

Shredded Mulch dresses beds, tree rings and slopes. Buyers here also ask for cypress mulch by name; the species is not specified, so order it as shredded mulch.

Base Materials

610 Limestone, also called #610, 610 base or CR610, is the compacted layer under drives, parking pads, shed pads and flatwork. The Louisiana base size runs from stone dust up to about two inches, so the fines bind it and it hardens as it is rolled.

Crushed Concrete, also called recycled base or 610 concrete, is recycled Portland cement concrete crushed and screened with the fines left in. Louisiana permits it as a Class II base course material.

It is not crushed limestone.

Washed Stone

#57 Limestone, also called #57 stone or 57 rock, is the clean open graded size at about 3/4 inch with no fines. It surfaces a drive and works around concrete and drainage.

Drain Rock is clean washed stone with the fines taken out, for French drains, foundation perimeter drains, drywells and downspout runs. On ground with a water table this close to the surface, the drainage layer is the part that has to work.

#4 Crushed Stone is a coarse clean stone at roughly 1 1/2 inch, for heavy drainage, erosion work and stabilising very wet ground. #67 Stone is a little finer, for drainage trenches, pipe bedding and concrete.

Sand

Mason Sand is the finest washed sand, for mortar, brick and block work and for a smooth paver setting bed. Washed Sand, also called river sand, beds pipe and flatwork and backfills where a clean fine material is wanted.

Decorative

Natural Pea Gravel is rounded pea sized gravel for paths, dog runs, play areas and pipe bedding. River Rock covers beds and borders where nothing has to compact.

Ground and Conditions in Independence

Across the Florida parishes pine flatwoods, the ground is level to gently sloping terrace under pine. The surface reads sandy and free draining, and the layer under it is not.

That dense subsoil is slowly permeable, so the water table rises into the root zone in the wet season and stays. Rain has nowhere to go quickly on flat ground.

Two things follow. A base course has to shed water rather than trap it, which is why clean stone belongs at the edges and in trenches.

And fill has to compact, because ground that stays wet will settle under a pad that was only dumped and leveled.

Bare flat ground also erodes by sheet flow, and the sandy surface rills where grade is left exposed. Riprap and coarse stone hold banks and ditch edges on this parish's ground.

Work runs year round here, set by how wet the ground is rather than how cold. Louisiana design criteria are about wind and water, so there is no frost depth to plan around.

Delivery to Independence and the Surrounding Area

Order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load before you check out.

Bulk delivery arrives as a dump truck that tips the load in one pile at your site. Have the drop area clear and reachable, with room for the truck to get in and out.

Independence sits in Tangipahoa Parish, and delivery covers Hammond, Ponchatoula, Kentwood, Roseland and Tickfaw as well.

Order Gravel, Sand and Soil in Independence

Louisiana Rock Supply delivers 610 limestone, crushed concrete, washed stone, sand, topsoil, garden soil and fill for driveways, pads, drainage, raised beds and grade repair in Independence. Choose your material and quantity online, size the load with the calculator, and pick a delivery date at checkout.