Order 610 Limestone and Crushed Stone in Tensas Parish, LA
Louisiana Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Tensas Parish, LA. If you are building a driveway, setting a patio base, or cutting a drainage run, the material choice starts with the ground under it.
In Tensas, that ground is recent alluvium: heavy silty clay and clay loam, with sandier ridges along the old channels.
610 limestone is the base most of that work sits on. It is the dense graded Louisiana base size, running from stone dust up to about two inches, and the fines bind it as it is rolled.
Materials Delivered in Tensas Parish
Base material comes first on any pad or drive. 610 Limestone, also called #610 or 610 base, is the dense graded crushed limestone base for driveways, parking pads, shed pads, and the layer under flatwork.
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, and a source has to meet Section 1003 to be listed on the department's approved materials list.
Crushed Concrete, sold locally as recycled base or 610 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 a different material from crushed limestone, not a substitute name for it.
Clean stone handles water and surface work. #57 Limestone is the open graded size at about 3/4 inch with no fines, used for a driveway surface, drainage, and concrete work.
#67 Stone runs a little finer for drainage trenches, pipe bedding and concrete. #4 Crushed Stone is a coarse clean stone at roughly 1 1/2 inch for heavy drainage, erosion work and wet ground.
On the fine end, #8 Crushed Stone and #89 Crushed Stone cover fine drainage, paver bedding and paver joints. Drain Rock is clean washed stone with the fines taken out, for French drains, foundation perimeter drains, drywells and downspout runs.
Sand and soil round out a load. Mason Sand is the finest washed sand, for mortar, brick and block work and a smooth paver setting bed.
Washed Sand, also called river sand, beds pipe and flatwork. Top Soil is the growing layer for lawns and beds, and Select Fill raises low ground and builds a pad up out of the water.
Decorative stone finishes the job. Natural Pea Gravel suits paths, dog runs and play areas, while River Rock covers beds and borders.
RipRap is angular stone for bank and shoreline armour and slope protection.
Delivery Across Tensas Parish
Order online and a dump truck tips the load on site. You choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to help size it.
Pick a delivery date at checkout.
Bulk delivery covers Newellton, St. Joseph, Waterproof and the surrounding parish.
Have the drop area clear before the truck arrives, because the load comes off in one pile and stays where it lands.
Ground Conditions Across Tensas Parish
Across the Mississippi and Red River alluvial plains, a high water table and clay that will not take water set the rules. The land is flat, and the natural levee ridges are the only ground that drains by itself.
The backswamp between them holds rain until it is pumped or ditched away.
That makes the drainage layer the part that has to work. Clean washed stone such as drain rock moves water instead of holding it, and a fines-bearing base like 610 limestone should not be asked to drain.
Erosion shows up as river and bayou bank cutting, sheet flow across bare clay after a hard rain, and ditch and canal scour. Angular stone such as riprap holds a bank.
Rounded stone does not lock together, so it is not bank armour.
Work runs year round here. Heavy rain and saturated clay, not cold, are what stop a compaction pass, so plan around the wet spells rather than the season.
Choosing the Right Material
Franklin Parish and Madison Parish both sit in the Northeast region, and both share the same ground region as Tensas Parish: recent alluvium of silty clay and clay loam, with sandier levee ridges and backswamp clay in the low ground. The ground is the same, so the material logic carries across all three.
Where the ground is heavy clay that holds water, start with a compactable base and keep the drainage stone clean. Where a pad has to come up out of the water, select fill goes underneath, and it compacts rather than settling.
Top soil belongs on top of finished grade, not under a base course.
Order Base, Stone, Sand and Soil for Your Tensas Parish Project
Louisiana Rock Supply delivers 610 limestone, clean stone, sand, soil and decorative rock for driveways, pads, drainage runs and bank work across Tensas Parish. Order online, size the load by the ton or yard, and a truck brings it to your site.
Place your order when you are ready to build.