Bulk Material Delivery in Roanoke, LA

Louisiana Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Roanoke, LA. Water is the driver here.

Ground across the southwest coastal prairie terraces holds rain in the top foot, so a drainage layer has to move it away from the house.

Start with clean washed stone. Add 610 limestone where you need a base that binds and hardens under a drive or a pad.

Materials for Roanoke Projects

Washed stone carries the water. Drain rock is clean washed stone with the fines taken out, and it goes in French drains, foundation perimeter drains, drywells and downspout runs.

On ground with a water table this close to the surface, that layer is the part that has to work.

Size the drainage stone to the job. #4 Crushed Stone is the coarse clean stone for heavy drainage, erosion work and wet ground that needs stabilising.

#57 Limestone is the 3/4 inch clean size for general drainage and trench work. #89 Crushed Stone is the fine clean stone for tight spots.

Base work needs a material with fines in it. 610 Limestone is the Louisiana base: 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 and building pads, and flatwork.

Crushed Concrete is a base layer of 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.

It is recycled concrete, not crushed limestone, and the two are not the same material.

For a drive surface, Driveway Gravel tops a finished base course. Walkway Gravel packs underfoot on garden paths.

Sand and soil round out a job. Mason Sand is the finest washed sand, for mortar, brick and block work.

Washed Sand beds pipe and flatwork. Top Soil is the growing layer for lawns and beds over ground that is more often heavy clay than anything a lawn wants.

Delivery to Roanoke and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick a delivery date at checkout. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator.

A dump truck tips the load on site.

Roanoke sits in Jefferson Davis Parish. Delivery covers the town and the surrounding area, including Jennings, Welsh, Lake Arthur and Elton.

Ground and Conditions in Roanoke

Work runs year round here, with wet spells rather than cold ones setting the schedule. That shapes timing more than anything else.

Ground across the southwest coastal prairie terraces is level Pleistocene terrace with a silt loam surface over dense clay subsoil.

The claypan is the whole story. Rain gets through the silt loam surface, reaches the dense subsoil and stops, so water perches in the top foot and the ground stays soft long after the rain has gone.

On ground this flat there is no fall to carry it off.

That is why a drainage layer matters more than a deep base. Clean washed stone gives perched water somewhere to go.

A fines-bearing base set into saturated ground holds the water instead.

Bare terrace ground also moves. Sheet flow crosses fresh grade, ditches and coulees scour, and rills cut into a slope before it is covered.

Riprap and large river rock armour bank and shoreline edges where the water runs hardest.

Order Bulk Gravel and Aggregate in Roanoke

Louisiana Rock Supply delivers 610 limestone, washed stone, sand and soil in bulk across Roanoke and Jefferson Davis Parish. Size your load on the product page, then order online and choose a delivery date at checkout.

Place your order when you are ready to build.