Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Sunshine, LA

Louisiana Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Sunshine, LA to homeowners, farmers and contractors working across Iberville Parish. The base material here is 610 limestone, the crushed limestone base that carries drives, pads and the layer under flatwork.

Sunshine sits on the Mississippi and Red River alluvial plains, where the ground is heavy and the water table stays close. That shapes what you order before it shapes anything else.

Delivery to Sunshine and the Surrounding Area

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 before you commit.

A dump truck then tips the material on your site in one pile.

Bulk delivery covers Sunshine and the rest of Iberville Parish, including St. Gabriel, Plaquemine, White Castle, Rosedale and Maringouin.

Whether the drop is a farm lane off the ridge or a lot in the backswamp, the truck needs a spot it can reach and turn around in.

Have that spot clear before the truck arrives. The driver tips the load and leaves; the pile stays where it lands.

Materials for Sunshine Projects

This is fill and sub-base country. Much of the ground here sits low and wet, so a build often starts by raising grade and making a pad that stands above the water.

That means fill first, then a compacted base, then whatever surface the job calls for.

For raising a pad or lifting a low lot, Select Fill is the structural choice. It compacts instead of settling, so it belongs under a base course and not under a lawn.

River silt is the local name for the finer alluvial fill that yards list beside it for grade raising.

Once the pad is up, 610 Limestone is the base. Stone dust up to about two inches binds it, and it hardens as it is rolled, which is why it goes under drives, parking pads and shed slabs.

Crushed Concrete is the recycled alternative: Portland cement concrete crushed and screened with the fines left in, and Louisiana permits it as a Class II base course material. It is not crushed limestone, and the two are not the same product.

For a driveway surface, Driveway Gravel tops a finished base course. Where the drive has to shed water instead of holding it, #57 Limestone is the clean open graded size at about 3/4 inch with no fines.

Drainage is its own order. Drain Rock is washed clean with the fines taken out, for French drains, foundation perimeter drains and downspout runs.

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

Ground and Conditions in Sunshine

The soil across the Mississippi and Red River alluvial plains is recent alluvium: silty clay and clay loam laid down by the rivers, deep and heavy. Sandier natural levee ridges run along the old channels, and backswamp clay fills the low ground between them.

That clay will not take water. The land is flat, the ridges are the only ground that drains by itself, and the low ground holds rain until it is ditched or pumped away.

A base built on clay without enough fill under it moves, because the water has nowhere to go.

Erosion follows the same pattern. River and bayou banks cut, bare clay sheets water after a hard rain, and ditches and canals scour.

Riprap is the angular stone for bank and shoreline armour; rounded river rock does not lock together and will not hold a slope.

Work runs year round here. Heavy rain and saturated clay stop a compaction pass, not cold.

Order 610 Limestone and Base Material in Sunshine

610 limestone is the base that carries drives, pads and flatwork in Sunshine, and Select Fill is what gets a wet lot up out of the water first. Order online, size the load by the ton or yard, and pick your delivery date.

Louisiana Rock Supply delivers across Iberville Parish.