Can I order material for a commercial or contractor job?

Yes. Louisiana Rock Supply sells bulk gravel, stone, sand, soil and fill to contractors and commercial jobs as well as to homeowners. You order by the ton or by the yard, size the load on the calculator, and choose a delivery date at checkout. The truck tips the load on site for your crew to handle from there.

When is the best time of year to order base material in St. James Parish?

Work runs year round on the alluvial plains. Heavy rain and saturated clay, not cold, are what stop a compaction pass, so the practical approach is to watch the forecast and order for a stretch when the ground has drained. Frost is not a factor in Louisiana, so there is no seasonal window you have to wait for.

What is the difference between topsoil and fill dirt?

Topsoil is the growing layer, used for lawns, beds and grade repair. Select fill is structural: it raises low ground and builds a pad up out of the water, and it compacts rather than settling, so it goes under a base course and not under a lawn. River silt and spillway dirt are other names Louisiana yards use for grade raising material.

St. James Parish Landscape Rock and Gravel, LA

Louisiana Rock Supply brings gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in St. James Parish, LA to homeowners, contractors and farms.

The material this market is built on is 610 limestone, the dense graded base that carries stone dust up to about two inches so it packs hard under a drive or a pad.

We deliver across the Mississippi and Red River alluvial plains, where the ground is heavy clay and the water table sits close to the surface.

Materials Delivered in St. James Parish

610 limestone is the Louisiana base size, also called #610, 610 base or CR610. Louisiana DOTD specifies aggregate quality in Section 1003 of the Louisiana Standard Specifications for Roads and Bridges, and the soundness and abrasion requirements sit in Subsection 1003.01.

Order it for driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads, and the compacted layer under flatwork.

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, so it works as a base layer in the same places a limestone base does.

Select fill raises low ground and builds a pad up out of the water. It compacts rather than settling, so it belongs under a base course and not under a lawn.

Stone screenings are the crusher fines that pass the finest screen, used for bedding and joints under pavers and as a packing top for a path.

For planting, garden soil is a blended mix for raised beds and vegetable gardens, and raised beds matter here because the natural ground sits wet. Shredded mulch dresses beds, tree rings and slopes.

Choosing the Right Material

St. John the Baptist Parish sits on the deltaic plain, the marsh and the Chenier coast, where the ground is organic muck and soft clay that is under consolidated and highly compressible.

Firm ground there is limited to natural levee ridges, old distributary channels and the cheniers.

That is a different ground from the alluvial plains here, and it changes the material choice. On muck and soft clay, a base course has to be built up before anything sits on it, and drainage has to move water away from a surface that will not take it.

Where the ground is the same, the answer is the same. St.

James Parish and St. John the Baptist Parish share the water table and the flat, poorly draining clay, so both need a base that packs and a drainage layer that works.

Ground Conditions Across St. James Parish

Recent alluvium laid down by the rivers is deep, fertile and heavy: silty clay and clay loam, with sandier natural levee ridges along the old channels and backswamp clay in the low ground between them. The land is flat, and the ridges are the only ground that drains by itself.

The backswamp between them holds rain until it is pumped or ditched away. A thin base shows this fast, because the clay underneath will not take water and the surface starts to rut and pump.

The fix is a proper compacted base course over the clay, plus a clean drainage layer wherever water has to leave.

Erosion here comes from river and bayou bank cutting, sheet flow across bare clay after a hard rain, and ditch and canal scour. Riprap and large river rock both have a place, but rounded stone does not lock together, so it is not bank armour.

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

Delivery Across St. James Parish

Order online and a dump truck tips the load on site. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, so start by choosing which one your project calls for.

Each product page has a calculator to help size the load.

Louisiana Rock Supply delivers to Lutcher, Gramercy, Paulina, St. James, Convent and Vacherie, and to addresses across the parish.

Pick a delivery date at checkout and the material arrives in one pile.

Order Your Load for St. James Parish

Start with the material your job calls for, then size the quantity on the calculator and choose a delivery date at checkout. Louisiana Rock Supply delivers 610 limestone, crushed concrete, clean stone, sand, soil and fill across St.

James Parish. Place your order online and we will send a truck.

Gravel, Stone and Soil for St. James Parish, LA