Bulk Gravel Delivery to Oscar, LA

If you are planning a patio, a parking pad or a driveway in Oscar, LA, you need gravel and aggregate delivery in Oscar, LA that starts with the right base material. Louisiana Rock Supply sells 610 limestone by the ton, plus the bedding and drainage stone that goes around flatwork.

Oscar sits in Pointe Coupee Parish on heavy alluvial ground. That ground decides what you order before anything else does.

Ground and Conditions in Oscar

The soil across the Mississippi and Red River alluvial plains is silty clay and clay loam, deep and fertile and heavy. It holds water instead of passing it.

The water table sits close to the surface and the land is flat, so rain has nowhere to go until it is ditched or pumped away.

A paver patio or a concrete slab built on a thin base shows the problem fast. The clay under it stays soft, the bedding layer shifts, and the surface rocks and settles at the edges.

The fix is a base that carries the load and a clean drainage layer that moves water off the subgrade. A fines-bearing base does the first job, and clean stone does the second.

Round stone will not do either one, because rounded pieces slide instead of locking.

Work runs year round here. Heavy rain and saturated clay, not cold, are what stop a compaction pass, so plan the base work around the wet stretches.

Materials for Oscar Projects

Most flatwork here starts with a base course under it. The rest of the order is bedding, joints and drainage.

Bases and Bedding

610 Limestone, also called #610 or 610 base, is the local base material. It runs from stone dust up to about two inches, so the fines bind it and it hardens as it is rolled.

It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed pads and the compacted layer beneath flatwork.

Crushed Concrete, or recycled base, is crushed and screened Portland cement concrete with the fines left in. Louisiana permits it as a Class II base course material, and it goes where a dense graded base is wanted.

Stone Screenings are the crusher fines that pass the finest screen. They bed pavers and pack the top of a path.

3/8" Crushed Stone is a fine crushed size for bedding under pavers and topping a walkway.

Sand for Setting Beds

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.

Clean Stone for Drainage

#57 Limestone, or 57 rock, is a clean open graded stone about 3/4 inch with no fines. It is the usual surface for a driveway and the choice for drainage and concrete work.

Drain Rock is 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.

Delivery to Oscar and the Surrounding Area

You order online and a dump truck tips the load on site. Quantities are by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load.

Louisiana Rock Supply delivers to Oscar and the rest of Pointe Coupee Parish, including New Roads, Livonia, Ventress, Fordoche and Morganza. Pick a delivery date at checkout and the truck brings the material to your address.

Order Gravel and Aggregate for Your Oscar Project

Work out your quantity on the product page calculator, then place the order online and choose a delivery date. Louisiana Rock Supply delivers 610 limestone, clean stone, sand and fill in Oscar by the ton or the yard.

Order your material and get the base right the first time.