What is the difference between crushed stone and Natural Pea Gravel?

Crushed stone has angular faces from the crusher, so it locks together and packs. Natural Pea Gravel is rounded and pea sized, so it stays loose and moves underfoot. Use crushed limestone where you want a surface that holds, and Natural Pea Gravel for paths, dog runs, play areas and pipe bedding.

Should I order material by the ton or by the yard?

Either works, and the quantity is yours to choose at checkout. Aggregate is heavy, so most bulk loads are written in tons, while some buyers think in cubic yards. Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load.

Which stone is best for drainage in St. Martin Parish?

On ground with a water table this close to the surface, the drainage layer is the part that has to work. Drain rock is clean washed stone with the fines taken out, for French drains, perimeter drains, drywells and downspout runs. #57 limestone and #67 stone also work for open drainage, and #4 crushed stone suits heavy drainage and wet ground.

Crushed Stone and Sand, St. Martin Parish, LA

Louisiana Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in St. Martin Parish, LA.

The base material here is 610 limestone, the dense graded crushed limestone that runs from stone dust up to about two inches.

The ground is recent alluvium, silty clay and clay loam laid down by the rivers across the Mississippi and Red River alluvial plains. It is heavy, and it holds water.

Ground Conditions Across St. Martin Parish

Work runs year round on the alluvial plains. Heavy rain and saturated clay, not cold, are what stop a compaction pass.

A high water table and clay that will not take water set the terms here. The land is flat, and the natural levee ridges are the only ground that drains by itself.

The backswamp between those ridges holds rain until it is pumped or ditched away. That is why a drainage layer matters on almost any job on this ground.

Bank cutting along rivers and bayous, sheet flow across bare clay after a hard rain, and ditch scour are the erosion drivers. Riprap and large river rock are the answers for banks and channel edges.

Timing a delivery around the working season is simple. Order when the ground will take a truck, and plan the base course to sit above the wet clay.

Materials Delivered in St. Martin Parish

Louisiana buyers ask for aggregate by size number, so that is how the catalogue reads. Crushed limestone is specified locally under Section 1003 of the Louisiana Standard Specifications for Roads and Bridges.

Choosing the Right Material

Assumption Parish sits on the deltaic plain, the marsh and the Chenier coast. Its ground is organic muck and soft clay, under consolidated and highly compressible, with firm ground only on natural levee ridges and old distributary channels.

St. Martin Parish is silty clay and clay loam, heavy but not the same material as that coastal marsh.

A base course over soft organic ground needs a different approach than one over stiff alluvial clay.

Lafayette Parish and St. Landry Parish sit on the same southwest coastal prairie terraces.

That ground is a silt loam surface over a dense clay subsoil, often with a tight claypan close to the surface.

Their ground is the same as each other's, and the claypan there stops roots and water alike. On St.

Martin Parish ground the constraint is the water table, so drainage carries more of the work.

Delivery Across St. Martin Parish

Order online and a dump truck tips the load on site. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator.

You pick a delivery date at checkout. Louisiana Rock Supply covers the parish, including Breaux Bridge and St.

Martinville.

It helps to think about where the pile will land before the truck arrives. The load comes off in one pile, so leave room for it.

Order Bulk Gravel and Stone in St. Martin Parish

Louisiana Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and topsoil across St. Martin Parish, including Breaux Bridge and St.

Martinville. Order online by the ton or yard, size the load, and pick your delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck tips it on site. Place your order when your ground is ready.

Bulk Gravel and Stone Delivery in St. Martin Parish, LA