Bulk Aggregates for Drainage in Tallulah, LA

Water is the problem here, so gravel and aggregate delivery in Tallulah, LA starts with drainage. Louisiana Rock Supply delivers bulk material across Madison Parish.

The ground is clay that will not take water, and the water table sits close. On ground like that, the drainage layer is the part that has to work.

Washed stone comes first, then 610 limestone for anything that has to hold a load.

Materials for Tallulah Projects

Start with the clean stone. Drain rock is washed, with the fines taken out, so water moves through it instead of sitting in it.

Use it in French drains, drywells and downspout runs. On ground this wet, a fines-bearing material in a drain will hold water rather than pass it.

Size the clean stone to the job. Drain Rock is the washed workhorse.

#4 Crushed Stone is the coarse size, about 1 1/2 inch, for heavy drainage and very wet ground.

#57 Limestone is the clean open graded size, about 3/4 inch, with no fines. It is a driveway surface and a drainage stone both.

#67 Stone runs a little finer, for drainage trenches and pipe bedding. #8 Crushed Stone and #89 Crushed Stone take that finer still, down to paver bedding and joints.

Then the base material. 610 Limestone is the Louisiana base size, stone dust up to about two inches, and the fines bind it so it hardens as it is rolled.

It goes under driveways, parking pads and shed pads.

Crushed Concrete is recycled Portland cement concrete, crushed and screened with the fines left in. Louisiana permits it as a Class II base course material.

It is not crushed limestone.

For ground that sits low, Select Fill raises a pad up out of the water. It compacts rather than settling, so it belongs under a base course.

Sand and soil finish the list. Mason Sand for mortar and block work, Washed Sand for bedding under pipe and flatwork, and Top Soil for the growing layer over heavy clay.

Delivery to Tallulah and the Surrounding Area

Order online. Choose your quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page carries a calculator.

Pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile.

Tallulah sits in Madison Parish, and delivery covers the city and the ground around it.

Ground and Conditions in Tallulah

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

That shapes timing. Across the Mississippi and Red River alluvial plains, the land is flat and the clay takes water slowly.

Recent alluvium laid down by the rivers left silty clay and clay loam, deep and fertile and heavy. Sandier natural levee ridges along the old channels drain by themselves.

Backswamp clay in the low ground between them holds rain until it is ditched away.

So plan around the water. A clean drainage layer under the wet ground, and a compacted 610 limestone base over it, keeps a drive or a pad out of the standing water.

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 angular stone for bank and shoreline armour and slope protection. Rounded stone does not lock together, so river rock is not bank armour.

Order Bulk Aggregate in Tallulah

Louisiana Rock Supply delivers 610 limestone, washed stone, sand and soil in bulk to Tallulah and Madison Parish. Choose your material and quantity online, pick a delivery date at checkout, and a truck tips it on site.