Elite Excavation Services handles excavation and demolition in Morgan City, about 48 miles southeast of New Iberia on US 90. Morgan City sits behind a levee ring on the Atchafalaya River. The wall holds the river back. It does nothing for rain that pools on a low lot once the water is inside.
Anything that falls inside the ring has to drain back out. Ground here stays soft for days after a storm. A yard that felt firm in August turns to soup once a tropical system clears out. Old slabs crack, and back sheds rot from the sill up.
Most houses in town date to the 1950s and 1960s. Plenty of them have a shed, a carport or a garage that is past repair. Concrete out back cracks and sinks the same way.
The calls we get in Morgan City tend to be one of a few jobs. Cleanup after wind and high water. Taking down a house, mobile home, garage or barn. Clearing and grading lots near the service yards around the river and Bayou Boeuf.
We bring mini excavators, a compact track loader and dump trailers. Debris leaves the site in dump trailers or roll off containers. Estimates are free, so call (337) 201-0594.
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Morgan City's housing stock is old. The typical house here dates to the middle 1960s, and the blocks downtown go back further. The Morgan City Historic District runs roughly between Greenwood Street, Arkansas Street, Railroad Avenue and Front Street. Lots on those blocks are narrow, and the houses sit close to the property line.
We take down houses, mobile homes, garages, barns, carports and small commercial buildings. Concrete comes out too, including slabs, driveways and old walkways. A mini excavator fits between structures where a full size machine cannot get in. Here is how we handle demolition of houses and mobile homes from the first look to the last load.
Louisiana requires an asbestos survey before some demolitions, mostly on commercial and multi unit buildings. We work around that schedule, and removal itself is a separate licensed trade. Have power, gas and water cut off at the meter before the teardown day. Morgan City Planning and Zoning on Second Street covers the permit side inside city limits.
Morgan City has taken high water many times, including 1927, 1973, 1975 and 2011. Juan in 1985, Andrew in 1992 and Barry in 2019 each pushed storm water through St. Mary Parish. A flood monument at the Freret Street floodwall gate carries the old high water lines. The wall keeps the river out, but the mess in your yard is still yours to clear.
Storm debris here comes out heavy and wet. Limbs, fence panels, roofing and soaked sheetrock pile up all at once. We load with a compact track loader and haul in dump trailers. Larger jobs go into roll off containers that leave the property full.
Soft ground sets the pace after a storm. Running a loaded machine across a wet yard cuts ruts that cost more than the cleanup. Sometimes the right move is to work off the driveway until the lot firms up. See how we handle storm debris removal on a soaked property.
Morgan City sits low. The city treats the whole town as flood prone, not only the mapped hazard areas. Placing fill in the floodplain takes a permit, and Planning and Zoning sets the elevation you have to meet. A driveway tie in on a state route like LA 182 or LA 70 goes through LA DOTD.
We build house pads, level lots and grade yards so water runs away from the slab. Clay holds water, so the fall you cut has to actually go somewhere. Around here that somewhere is usually a roadside ditch or a side yard swale. More on dirt work and house pads and how we set grade on a wet lot.
Gravel drives need a base and a crown, or they rut out by the second wet season. We install new gravel drives, regrade tired ones and top them back up. Culverts go in with the same machine, sized to the ditch they sit in. The city or St. Mary Parish permits that work on local streets.
Morgan City grew up on shrimping and offshore oil and gas. Kerr-McGee drilled the first offshore well out of sight of land from this coast in 1947. The service yards along the river and Bayou Boeuf still carry that work. Those lots leave behind cracked slabs and buried pads that we pull out to get back to dirt.
Brush comes back fast in this climate. A lot that was open two summers ago is a thicket now. We clear lots, underbrush overgrown tracts and pull brush out by the roots. Stumps get dug out with the excavator instead of ground down.
Past the levee the land opens up toward Lake Palourde on the north side of town. Bayou Vista lies west, with Amelia and Siracusaville east. That is where the pond work happens, on farm ponds and crawfish ponds. We run the same machines up Bayou Teche for land clearing in Breaux Bridge.
Communities & areas we serve around Morgan City: Morgan City Historic District, Downtown Front Street, Lakeside, Bayou Estates, Sacred Heart Park Addition, Marvin Garden, Siracusaville, Bayou Vista.
Morgan City ZIP codes served: 70380, 70381.
Free, no-obligation estimates throughout St. Mary Parish.
(337) 201-0594
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Debris removal for piles too heavy to move by hand. We load construction, demolition and storm debris with an excavator or track loader. The load leaves in a roll-off container or dump trailer.
View DetailsA few of the questions we hear most around Morgan City. If yours is not here, call and ask. The person who answers runs the jobs.
A structure that needs to come down, a lot to clear, a pad to build, or a driveway that floods? Call or send the form. We come look at the property, price the job in person, and give you a number that holds. Estimates are free.
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