Bulk Gravel and Stone Delivery in Androscoggin County, ME
Maine Rock Supply brings gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Androscoggin County, ME to driveways, camp roads, drainage work and yards from Lewiston and Auburn out to Turner, Poland and Livermore.
Type A gravel is the Maine base course, the crushed gravel that carries a drive, a parking pad or a shed base. Order it by the ton or the yard online, and a dump truck tips the load on site.
Materials Delivered in Androscoggin County
Town street standards call the same material out as Type A, and pits and yards sell it under that letter.
It goes under driveways, parking pads, camp roads and shed bases as the compacted base course, usually with a finer crushed gravel on top as the running surface. Order Type A Gravel when the base is the job.
Washed stone comes in several sizes, and the inch sizes are what Maine yards name first. 3/8 inch crushed stone suits narrow trenches and fine top dressing where 3/4 inch is too coarse.
#57 Stone and Drain Rock handle foundation drains and french drains.
Sand and soil round out a load. Mason Sand goes into mortar and under play areas, Washed Sand into concrete and paver bedding, and Fill Dirt into bulk fill and backfill.
River Rock finishes dry stream beds and bed edges.
Choosing the Right Material
Start with what the surface has to do. A drive that carries vehicles wants a compacted base course under a crushed gravel top course, while a footpath wants pea stone or stone dust instead.
Drainage work wants clean washed stone that water moves through.
Then match the material to the ground under it. The valley lowlands here are a mix of marine silt and clay, sand and gravel river terraces, esker sand and gravel, and stony till on the hills between the valleys.
Clay ground and gravel terrace behave nothing alike.
Fill and soil are not interchangeable. Fill Dirt, also called common borrow, raises grade and backfills.
Screened loam is the finish grade you seed into, and garden soil is the blend for raised beds and planting beds where plain loam is too lean.
Ground Conditions Across Androscoggin County
Across the Androscoggin and Kennebec valley lowlands, marine silt and clay reaches well inland up the river valleys, with sand and gravel terraces and outwash above it. That clay holds water at the surface while the terrace beside it drains fast.
Two lots on the same street can behave completely differently through snowmelt. On clay, water sits and softens the subgrade, so a drainage layer earns its place before a base course goes down.
On the terraces, water leaves quickly and the base stays firm.
Spring runoff and ice-out scour along the rivers and their tributaries gullies cut slopes and slumps where steep clay banks are steepened. Riprap on a bank, a culvert outlet or a ditch check holds that ground in place.
Inland winters here are colder than the coast, with deep frost, repeated freeze and thaw, and a pronounced mud season that softens gravel drives and shoulders. Frost depth is commonly about 4 feet in the valley cities and towns and deeper on the surrounding hills, and the local building official sets footing depth.
Base, driveway and paver work runs from the end of mud season into late fall. The window is slightly shorter than the coast and the spring is slower on clay ground.
Delivery Across Androscoggin County
Order online and a dump truck arrives with your material. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator.
Pick a delivery date at checkout.
The truck tips the load in one pile on site, so have the spot clear and reachable before it arrives. Coverage runs through Lewiston, Auburn, Lisbon, Lisbon Falls, Poland, Turner, Sabattus, Greene, Durham, Mechanic Falls, Livermore Falls, Minot, Leeds and Livermore.
Order Gravel, Stone and Soil for Your Androscoggin County Project
Maine Rock Supply delivers Type A gravel, bank run, crushed stone, sand, loam and decorative stone to driveways, camp roads, drainage work and yards across Androscoggin County. Choose the material that matches the job and the ground under it, size the load on the calculator, and place your order online.