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 Kenner usually starts with a permit from the city. Kenner is the most populous city in Jefferson Parish, and it has its own Inspection and Code Enforcement Department. Here, the demolition of any building must be permitted. Most of Kenner sits in a floodplain, so hauling in fill takes a permit too. The city runs from Lake Pontchartrain on the north to the Mississippi River on the south. Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport sits inside the city limits, just south of I-10. Most of the land between the lake and the river is low and flat.
J-Rod's Dirt Work is based in Hammond, LA, and Kenner sits inside our service area. We come south on I-55 across the Manchac swamp, then east on I-10 into Kenner. When an old or storm-damaged house has to come down, we handle the demolition. Sheds and garages come down the same way, and so do teardowns before a rebuild. Old driveways, patios, slabs and sidewalks come out with concrete removal. Low or sinking yards get fill dirt hauled in and spread. We match the machine to the lot: a Kubota SVL75-3 tracked skid steer or a Case excavator. We take commercial jobs too, like lots along Williams Boulevard, the city's main north-south road. Estimates are free, and no job is too big or too small.
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Minor Kenner founded the town in 1855 on old plantation land. Its growth began in the late 1950s. Developers subdivided the swampland in the northern half of the city, then drained it and filled it. In the 1960s, Interstate 10 and improvements to Veterans Memorial Highway sped up the building. Kenner grew from 5,535 people in 1950 to 66,382 by 1980. Census figures put the median year built for Kenner housing at 1978. More than half of it went up before 1980, and about a third dates from the 1970s. That is a lot of aging houses and old concrete.
The city says most of Kenner lies at or below sea level, on land prone to subsidence. Rain is the most common source of flood water here. The low, flat ground gives that rain little natural fall, so it has to be pumped out. Drainage canals and pumping stations move it out past the levees. By FEMA's count, Kenner ranks in the top 10 in Louisiana for flood insurance policies. On your lot, our part is the yard. Fill raises the low spots, and land grading slopes the yard so rain runs toward the street. Most of Jefferson Parish is low too, and we also do dirt work in Metairie, just east of Kenner.
The city's Inspection and Code Enforcement Department handles permits for building work and demolitions of structures. One of its main objectives is fighting blight, with code sweeps through every district of the city. After Hurricane Francine, the city waived permit fees for storm damage, but repairs still need a permit. Once your demolition permit is in hand, we take the structure down and haul the debris off. Old footings and buried concrete come out with excavation. The lot is left ready for what comes next.
A rebuild has to meet Kenner's floor height rule. City Ordinance Chapter 5 Article IV sets the required height for property in Zone AE. There, the finished floor must sit above the FEMA base flood elevation. The rule reaches older houses too. When improvements or storm repairs reach 50 percent of a building's fair market value, it must meet new-building floor height. With the old house gone, we build the new pad to the grade on your plans. That is our site preparation work, with fill placed in lifts and packed firm.
Communities and areas we serve around Kenner: Rivertown, Laketown, Chateau Estates, North Kenner, Williams Boulevard, Veterans Boulevard, Airline Drive, Loyola Drive, Jefferson Highway, River Ridge.
Kenner ZIP codes served: 70062, 70065.
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 Kenner. 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.