Land Clearing
Land clearing for overgrown lots, fence lines and acreage across Southeast Louisiana. We take out the underbrush and small trees, then dig the stumps and root balls out with the excavator.
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Dirt work in River Ridge happens on land first laid out for sugar plantations. River Ridge is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Parish, a suburb of New Orleans. It counted 13,591 people at the 2020 census. The community runs along a 3-mile stretch of Jefferson Highway, Louisiana Highway 48. Harahan borders it on the east, Kenner on the northwest and Metairie on the north. The Mississippi River forms its southwest edge, and Waggaman sits across the water. By Census estimates, half the homes in River Ridge were built in 1971 or earlier. About seven in ten went up before 1980. When one of those lots gets a new house, the old one has to come down first.
Our base is Hammond, LA, and River Ridge falls inside the 50-mile radius we work. Older houses come down with our demolition work, along with the detached garages and sheds behind them. Old concrete driveways, slabs and patios get broken up and hauled off with concrete removal. Then site preparation turns the cleared lot into a firm, level building pad for the new house. Where the ground sits low, we bring in fill dirt and pack it in lifts. Our machines include a Kubota SVL75-3 tracked skid steer and a Case excavator. We take residential and commercial jobs, and every estimate is free. No job too big or too small.
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In the late 1700s and early 1800s, sugar plantations lined the river here in French long lots. Each one had a narrow river front and ran deep back from the water. The Trudeau and Sauvé families were among the major landholders. Pierre Sauvé's plantation here was called Providence. River Ridge's major streets still follow the lines of those old lots. Sauve Road is still a main road, and its name and signs drop the accent. In 1849, the crude river levee at Providence gave way under high water. That flood, Sauvé's Crevasse, covered much of the land to the east, parts of New Orleans included.
In the early 1900s, an interurban line linked New Orleans and Kenner along today's Jefferson Highway. Still, the area stayed farmland until after World War II. The Post Office called it Little Farms, and Little Farms Avenue is still a major street. Helped by the G.I. Bill, large-scale building began in the early 1950s. By 1965, nearly all the land along the river between Harahan and Kenner was built up. In 1974, the area was officially renamed River Ridge. Census estimates count 6,325 homes here today. More of them date from the 1960s than from any other decade, 1,698 in all. A house from that decade is more than 55 years old now. A rebuild on its lot usually takes out the old slab and driveway too.
River Ridge sits between two cities, Kenner and Harahan, but it is not one. It is unincorporated, so building permits come from the Jefferson Parish Building Permits Department. The department has permit navigators who see each permit through. Engineering and Floodplain Management are among the parish offices involved in the permitting process. River Ridge is on the East Bank, so start with the department's East Bank office. Louisiana law calls for an 811 notice 48 to 120 hours before digging or demolition, not counting weekends and holidays. Then the house or garage comes down, and we haul the debris off. Old footings and buried debris come out with excavation, down to clean ground for the new pad.
The parish runs the street drainage here too, while Kenner and Harahan keep up their own. The East Bank has 38 pump stations. The parish puts their average pumping capacity at about 0.75 inches of rain per hour. When a storm drops rain faster than that, water stands until the pumps catch up. A low or settled yard holds it the longest. Our part is the yard. We raise the low spots with packed fill, then land grading slopes the yard toward the street. Rain should leave your lot and stay off the one next door.
Communities and areas we serve around River Ridge: Jefferson Highway, Sauve Road, Little Farms Avenue, Little Farms Park, Jesse Owens Park, Harahan, Kenner, Metairie, Waggaman.
River Ridge ZIP codes served: 70123.
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(985) 500-4145 Land clearing for overgrown lots, fence lines and acreage across Southeast Louisiana. We take out the underbrush and small trees, then dig the stumps and root balls out with the excavator.
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Stump removal for a single stump, a fence line full of them or a whole lot, around Hammond and across Southeast Louisiana. We dig the stump and root ball out with the excavator, haul it off and backfill the hole.
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We take down houses, mobile homes, sheds, barns and small commercial buildings. The debris gets loaded out and hauled off, so the lot is clear when we leave.
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We tear down old mobile homes and manufactured homes on site and haul every piece off. Porches, skirting, piers, the steel frame and the axles all go, and the lot is left clean and rough graded.
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Excavation covers cuts and fills, soft or bad material dug out, and ditches and drainage swales. A Case excavator and a Kubota SVL75-3 skid steer do the work within 50 miles of Hammond.
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We sell fill dirt and haul it to your property. Loads get dumped where you want them, spread out, and packed down so the ground holds.
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We build new gravel driveways from the subgrade up, with base rock under the top rock. We also re-gravel and regrade older drives that have gone to potholes and soft spots.
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We build gravel roads into acreage, hunting land, camps and job sites, with base rock under the surface rock. We also regrade and rebuild worn gravel roads that have gone to potholes, washboard, ruts or soft spots.
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Land grading shapes your ground so water runs off it instead of standing on it. We handle yard leveling and lot grading within a 50 mile radius of Hammond.
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We take a lot from raw ground to a pad you can build on. Fill placed and compacted in lifts, rough grade set, and access roughed in for the trucks.
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We break out old driveways, slabs, patios, sidewalks and footings and haul the pieces off. The ground gets graded smooth or built back up with fill.
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Call or text (985) 500-4145, or send the form and we will get back to you. Tell us the address and what the ground needs, and we will set up a free estimate.
Tell us about the job and the ground. We will get right back to you.