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 Metairie usually starts with something old coming out. Metairie is on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain, where the Causeway comes ashore. Kenner borders it to the west, and the 17th Street Canal marks the line with New Orleans. Railroad tracks form its south edge. It is the largest community in Jefferson Parish, but it is not a city. Metairie is unincorporated, so the parish handles the permits here. The ground changes across town, too. The Metairie Ridge is old high ground, while the rest of town sits low. Rain averages 62.5 inches a year, so a low yard with little fall can hold water.
J-Rod's Dirt Work is based in Hammond, LA, and Metairie sits inside our service area. We come south on I-55 across the Manchac swamp, then east on I-10 through Kenner. In Metairie we handle demolition of older and storm-damaged houses, sheds and garages, including teardowns before a rebuild. We also do concrete removal for old driveways, patios, slabs and sidewalks. Low or sinking yards off the ridge get fill dirt hauled in and spread. Our machines include a Kubota SVL75-3 tracked skid steer and a Case excavator. We take commercial lots too, like the ones along Causeway Boulevard and Veterans Boulevard. Estimates are free. No job too big or too small.
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Metairie's high ground is the Metairie Ridge. It is a natural levee, formed by an ancient branch of the Mississippi River called Bayou Metairie. The Acolapissa people used the ridge as a road. It is the oldest road in the New Orleans area. A streetcar started running along it in the late 1910s. Upscale homes went up off that road in the 1920s, and the area is now called Old Metairie. On a lot that old, a teardown or slab removal often comes before any new grade.
Off the ridge, Metairie sits low. Its listed elevation is just 3 feet above sea level. Metairie covers about 23 square miles between the lake and the tracks. Veterans Boulevard was laid out alongside a drainage canal, and it grew into a commercial center. The central business district sits on Causeway Boulevard near the lake. Across the 17th Street Canal, we also do dirt work in New Orleans. On a Metairie lot, the job is getting water off the yard and away from the house.
Metairie has no city hall, so permits come from Jefferson Parish. The parish Building Permits Department was once called the Department of Inspection and Code Enforcement. It posts residential and commercial permit requirements on the parish website. Other parish offices review permits too, including Engineering and Floodplain Management. Once the parish permit is in hand, we take the house or garage down and haul the debris off. Old driveways, patios, slabs and sidewalks come out next. An overgrown back lot may need land clearing first.
With the lot clear, land grading shapes it so rain runs toward the street. A rebuild needs a firm, level pad, which is our site preparation work, with excavation for old footings first. For a new house, the parish sends the permit to Engineering for an online review. Parish code Chapter 14 sets building height rules because of the National Flood Insurance Program. Louisiana law calls for an 811 locate request 48 to 120 hours before digging, not counting weekends and holidays.
Communities and areas we serve around Metairie: Old Metairie, Fat City, Metairie Ridge, Causeway Boulevard, Veterans Boulevard, Kenner, River Ridge, Harahan, Elmwood, Jefferson.
Metairie ZIP codes served: 70001, 70002, 70003, 70005, 70006.
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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.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Metairie. 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.