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 Harahan usually happens on a lot where a house already stands. Harahan is an incorporated city in Jefferson Parish, a suburb of New Orleans on the Mississippi River. River Ridge borders it on the west, and Elmwood borders it on the east. The city counted 9,116 people at the 2020 census, on just over 2 square miles of land. By Census estimates, the median Harahan home was built in 1974. About two homes in three went up before 1980. So when a lot here gets a rebuild, the old house and its concrete usually come out first.
J-Rod's Dirt Work is based in Hammond, LA, and Harahan is inside the 50-mile radius we work. Harahan's older houses, garages and sheds come down with our demolition work, including teardowns before a rebuild. Old slabs, driveways and patios come out with concrete removal, and we haul the debris off. Low or settled yards get fill dirt hauled in and spread, then graded smooth. A rebuild gets a firm building pad, with the old footings dug out. We bring a Kubota SVL75-3 tracked skid steer or a Case excavator, whichever fits the job. We take commercial jobs too, on Jefferson Highway and the north end of Hickory Avenue, Harahan's old business strips. Every estimate is free, and no job is too big or too small.
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Harahan stands on land that was once part of the Soniat Plantation. Building beyond farming began in 1894, when the railroad put a repair yard and roundhouse next to today's city hall. In 1908 the Colonial Country Club went up and took over the old plantation home. In 1914, a land company of railroad officials bought a Southern University farm tract and split it into lots. Railroad workers, river workers and truck farmers moved in. The village was incorporated in 1920 and named for James Theodore Harahan, the railroad's president.
World War II brought the next wave. Camp Plauche went up on land that Elmwood covers today, and a mahogany plant made aircraft and boat parts. New homes followed, and Harahan's population tripled. By 1960 Harahan had over 9,000 people, close to the 9,116 counted in 2020. In the 1970s and early 1980s, apartments went up fast along Hickory Avenue. The Earhart Expressway made New Orleans an easier drive, and Harahan grew as a bedroom community. Census estimates still count more than 2,700 homes built from 1950 through 1979. Their slabs, driveways and patios have aged right along with them.
Harahan sits behind the Mississippi River levee. Before the Huey P. Long Bridge, the railroads ran a railcar ferry from Harahan across the river to Avondale. Cars climbed an incline over the levee to reach it. Today the city keeps up the street drainage inside its limits. Jefferson Parish lists a new Harahan Pump Station, designed under the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA) to move 1,200 cubic feet of water a second. The Corps of Engineers' Pump to the River project laid three 84-inch steel pipes. They run from a pump station to an outlet on the Mississippi River, partly under Jefferson Highway. Your lot is where our work comes in. On a low or settled yard, we spread fill in packed lifts. Then land grading gives the yard a steady fall toward the street.
Building permits in Harahan run through the city's own Regulatory Department, so call it before work starts. Louisiana law also requires an 811 notice before digging or demolition. It must go in 48 to 120 hours ahead, not counting weekends and holidays. With the city's sign-off, the old house or garage comes down, and we haul the debris away. Then excavation digs out the old footings and buried concrete. Last comes a firm, level building pad, packed in lifts as site preparation for the new house.
Communities and areas we serve around Harahan: Jefferson Highway, Hickory Avenue, River Ridge, Elmwood, Clearview Parkway, Avondale.
Harahan ZIP codes served: 70123.
Free estimates throughout Jefferson Parish and the surrounding area.
(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.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Harahan. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
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.