Bulk Aggregate Delivery Across Aroostook County, ME
Snowmelt arrives all at once onto ground still frozen below, and silt loam farm soils run and crust when saturated. That water decides what a base has to do here.
Maine Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone and aggregate in Aroostook County, ME, by the ton.
Type A gravel is the Maine base course.
Delivery across Aroostook County
Order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator to help size the load, and you choose a delivery date at checkout.
A dump truck tips the load in one pile on site. Deliveries reach Presque Isle, Caribou, Houlton, Fort Kent, Madawaska, Fort Fairfield, Van Buren, Mapleton, Washburn, Limestone, Mars Hill, Easton, Ashland and Frenchville.
Have the delivery spot clear and reachable for a truck before the load arrives. The driver tips the pile and leaves; nothing is placed or spread.
Materials delivered in Aroostook County
Order by project type. A camp road or drive takes a base course under a running surface.
A patio takes a bedding layer. A drain takes clean washed stone.
Type A gravel carries the base work: drives, parking pads, camp roads and shed bases.
Bank run gravel is unprocessed pit gravel. Use it for bulk fill and raising grade under a crushed gravel course, never as a finished driving surface.
For drainage, 3/4 inch crushed stone and drain rock are clean washed stone that sheds water. Rip rap, sold in ranges such as 6 inch and 12 to 24 inch, armours shore and stream banks, culvert outlets and ditch checks.
Screened loam feeds lawn repair and seeding. Garden soil suits raised beds and vegetable gardens where plain loam alone is too lean, and bark mulch dresses beds and tree rings.
Ground conditions across Aroostook County
Across the Aroostook plateau and Saint John uplands, the ground is gently rolling plateau with deep, well drained silt loam over limestone, slate and calcareous shale. That is the farm ground of the county.
It grades to stony till and thin soil over harder rock in the hills and along the uplands. An under-built base on that ground moves when the melt comes.
Erosion runs as sheet and gully wash on long cultivated slopes during snowmelt and heavy rain. Ditch and culvert scour works the farm road network, and bank cutting works the rivers.
This is the shortest working season in Maine. The ground is frozen for much of the year, base and paver work waits for a late breakup, and hard frost returns early in the fall.
Frost here is the deepest and longest in the state: a long freeze with little midwinter thaw, then a hard, late breakup that heaves and softens gravel roads and drives. Frost depth is 5 feet or more, and the town or city building official gives the figure for a footing.
Choosing the right material
Penobscot County and Piscataquis County sit on the same ground region as Aroostook County: rolling uplands of dense stony till over slate, schist and granite. The base and drainage choice is the same there.
Washington County differs. Its ground is coarse sandy and bouldery till over granite and volcanic bedrock, with ledge close to the surface and broad glacial outwash sand and gravel.
Ledge that shallow pushes drainage and base decisions differently than deep silt loam does.
Match the material to the job. A drive takes Type A gravel as a base with driveway gravel over it.
A patio takes stone dust as a setting bed. A drain takes washed stone.
Order Type A gravel for your Aroostook County job
Type A gravel is the base course for drives, pads and camp roads across Aroostook County. Maine Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil by the ton.
Order online, size the load on the product page, and pick your delivery date at checkout.