610 Limestone, Sand and Gravel Delivery in Vermilion Parish, LA
Louisiana Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Vermilion Parish, LA. Start with 610 limestone, the Louisiana base size, then size your load on the product page calculator.
This is coastal prairie ground, and it decides what you order. Silt loam on top, dense clay underneath, and a claypan that holds water in the top foot long after the rain stops.
Ground Conditions Across Vermilion Parish
Across the southwest coastal prairie terraces, the surface is silt loam over a dense clay subsoil. A tight claypan sits close enough to the surface to stop roots and water alike.
Rain gets through the silt loam, reaches the dense subsoil and stops. Water perches in the top foot, and the ground stays soft well after the weather clears.
On ground this flat there is no fall to carry water off. That is why an under-built base fails here: the subgrade never dries out beneath it.
Bare terrace ground also moves water as sheet flow, and fresh grade cuts rills before anything covers it. Ditch and coulee edges scour for the same reason.
Work runs year round in this part of the state. Wet spells set the schedule, not cold ones.
Materials Delivered in Vermilion Parish
Order by what you are building. A driveway, a patio, a drain and a raised bed each call for a different material.
610 Limestone carries the most weight in this parish. 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 approved materials list.
In the trade the size designation is what a buyer says out loud. 610 is the dense graded base size, and the same designation covers crushed limestone and recycled Portland cement concrete.
Louisiana permits crushed concrete as a Class II base course material. It is recycled Portland cement concrete, not crushed quarry stone, so treat it as its own product.
For drainage, #57 Limestone and #67 Stone are clean open graded sizes. #4 Crushed Stone suits heavy drainage and wet ground, and #8 Crushed Stone handles fine drainage and paver bedding.
For a patio or walkway, Stone Screenings bed and joint pavers, and Washed Sand works as a setting bed and pipe bedding. River Rock covers beds and borders where nothing has to compact.
Choosing the Right Material
Lafayette Parish shares this ground region, the southwest coastal prairie terraces. The silt loam over dense clay and the claypan are the same, so the base and drainage choices there are the same as here.
Iberia Parish sits on Mississippi and Red River alluvial plains. That is recent alluvium, silty clay and clay loam laid down by the rivers, deep and heavy, with sandier natural levee ridges and backswamp clay in the low ground.
That ground is different in kind from the terrace here. A silt loam over a claypan holds water in the top foot, while deep alluvium drains and compacts differently.
Cameron Parish is coastal marsh: organic muck and soft clay, under consolidated and highly compressible. The only firm ground is on natural levee ridges, old distributary channels and the cheniers.
On ground that soft, a drainage layer has to work and a base has to be built up from something that compacts. That is a different problem from a claypan terrace.
Delivery Across Vermilion Parish
Order online and pick a delivery date at checkout. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load.
A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Delivery covers Abbeville, Kaplan, Erath, Maurice, Delcambre and Gueydan.
Order 610 Limestone and Bulk Aggregate in Vermilion Parish
610 limestone is the base this parish is built on, a dense graded crushed limestone that packs hard over soft prairie ground. Louisiana Rock Supply delivers it, along with sand, fill and drainage stone, across Vermilion Parish.
Size your load on the product page calculator and place your order online.