610 Limestone, Sand and Gravel Delivery in St. Charles Parish, LA
Louisiana Rock Supply sells gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in St. Charles Parish, LA.
Contractors building pads and homeowners fixing a wet yard both order here, and both get the same material.
Start with 610 limestone, the Louisiana base size. It carries stone dust up to about two inches, so the fines bind it and it hardens as it is rolled.
That is the material a driveway, a parking pad or the layer under flatwork sits on.
Materials Delivered in St. Charles Parish
Louisiana DOTD specifies aggregate quality in Section 1003 of the Louisiana Standard Specifications for Roads and Bridges, with soundness and abrasion requirements in Subsection 1003.01. An aggregate source has to meet Section 1003 to be listed on the department's approved materials list.
Crushed 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.
It is not crushed limestone, and the two are not the same product.
The clean sizes handle water. #4 Crushed Stone is coarse and angular, roughly 1 1/2 inch, for heavy drainage and stabilising very wet ground.
#8 Crushed Stone and #89 Crushed Stone are the fine clean sizes for paver bedding and joints.
Washed sand, also called river sand, beds pipe and flatwork. Natural Pea Gravel and river rock are rounded stone for paths, dog runs and beds, where nothing has to compact.
Delivery Across St. Charles 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 tips the material on site in one pile.
Bulk delivery reaches Luling, Destrehan, St. Rose, Hahnville, Norco, Boutte, Des Allemands, Ama and Paradis.
Have the drop area clear and reachable before the truck arrives, since the load is tipped where the truck can safely stand.
Ground Conditions Across St. Charles Parish
Across the deltaic plain, the marsh and the Chenier coast, the ground is coastal marsh: organic muck and soft clay, under consolidated and highly compressible. The only firm ground is on natural levee ridges, old distributary channels and the cheniers.
The water table sits at or near the surface, so the ground is already saturated. Nothing here drains downward.
Water leaves by pump, canal or not at all, and a pad built on muck settles under its own weight before anything is parked on it.
That makes the drainage layer the part that has to work. Drain rock and the clean open sizes carry water away instead of holding it, and select fill raises a pad out of the wet ground before a base course goes down.
Work runs year round here, interrupted by rain and high water rather than by cold. Erosion comes from storm surge, canal and bayou bank retreat, and wave action along open water, which is where riprap and large river rock go.
Choosing the Right Material
Jefferson Parish, Lafourche Parish and St. John the Baptist Parish all sit in the same ground region as St.
Charles Parish. The soil and water conditions are the same, so the material choice does not change from one parish to the next.
Start with what the ground is doing. Wet, soft ground needs select fill to build a pad up first, then 610 limestone as the compacted base over it.
A drive that already holds shape can take 610 limestone as the base and #57 limestone as the clean surface stone.
Where water has to move, choose clean stone: #57, #67, #4 or drain rock, depending on how coarse the drain needs to be. Where the ground is heavy clay and you want something to grow, top soil or garden soil goes on top instead.
Order 610 Limestone, Sand and Gravel in St. Charles Parish
Louisiana Rock Supply delivers base, washed stone, sand, soil and decorative rock for driveways, pads, drainage, beds and grade work across St. Charles Parish.
Choose your material, size the load, and place your order online for delivery to your site.