Concrete Contractor in Scott, LA

Driveways and culverts on Scott's older streets

Scott was named the Boudin Capital of the World in 2012, but its older motto is Where the West Begins. The motto comes from the 1880 railroad depot that gave the town its name, the first stop for westbound traffic. More than half of the homes in Scott were built before 1990, by the Census count. Westward Heights dates to 1966 and Acadiana Heights to 1980 in the parish's subdivision records.

If a driveway has dropped over its culvert, we tear out the broken slab and reset the pipe. The new driveway goes down on a compacted base with rebar or wire mesh. Control joints give the shrinkage cracks a place to land.

Inside the city limits, Scott's code requires a permit before any drainage pipe goes in. The city sets the size and grade of the pipe, and 15 inches is the smallest the code allows. The pipe is inspected after it is set and before it is covered.

New subdivisions in Scott: patios, walks and house slabs

Scott is adding houses quickly. The Census counted 324 new homes and apartments permitted in the city in 2023 alone. The city's development page lists new subdivisions on Apollo Road, Fenetre Road, Landry Road and Rue du Belier. West Village, Berchman Oaks, Emerald Lake and The Chateaus are among the newer neighborhoods.

Scott's code bans open ditches along the road in new subdivisions. Water goes into buried pipe instead, through catch basins at the curb or drop inlets in a swale. A swale is a shallow graded ditch that carries water. We slope a new concrete patio and walkway away from the house.

Scott's flood code sets the floor of a new house at least a foot above the highest local flood mark. Those marks include the base flood elevation on the FEMA map and the center of the nearest street. We pour slab foundations and footings to the height the plan and the survey set.

Why does water stand in Scott yards after a rain?

The most common soil in and around Scott is Frost silt loam, per the NRCS soil survey. The survey calls it poorly drained. In most years it stays wet within a foot and a half of the surface from December to April. On ground that wet, rain soaks in slowly and can sit on a flat lawn.

Coulee Ile des Cannes and Coulee Mine both run through the city. A coulee is one of the drainage channels Acadiana towns are built around. FEMA maps most of Scott's land in its high-risk flood zone, and the city says the whole community can flood. After the August 2016 flood, FEMA took 355 homeowner registrations from Scott mailing addresses.

The city adopted a Drainage Improvement Plan in early 2020 and maps the roadside ditches and culverts it has cleaned. With West Village, it has also finished the dirt work on Provost Pond, a regional detention pond. On your own lot, yard drainage may mean catch basins, downspout lines, a regraded swale or a French drain. Scott's code bars blocking or diverting the natural flow of water, so we plan each fix around it.

Who issues permits for concrete work in Scott?

Inside the city limits, permits come from the Planning Department at Scott City Hall. Scott enforces the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code, the state building code, within the city. Its code calls for a permit before anyone builds or demolishes a structure.

Much of the 70583 ZIP code lies outside the city, mostly in unincorporated Lafayette Parish. There, the Lafayette Consolidated Government, or LCG, sets the rules for driveways and culverts on public roads. We check which rules cover your address before we quote.