Buy Fill Dirt in Lewiston, ME

Maine Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Lewiston, ME for grading, bed prep and driveway work. If you are raising a low corner of the yard, filling a garden bed or building up a pad before Type A gravel goes down, the load starts with soil and fill.

Lewiston sits in Androscoggin County, where clay under the topsoil holds water while the sand and gravel terraces beside it drain fast. That split decides what you put in the ground.

Materials for Lewiston Projects

Grading and bed prep come first on most lots here, and that work runs on soil, fill and a compacted base. Here is what each material does.

Soil and Fill

Top Soil is screened loam, the Maine trade name for the finish grade you seed into. It goes on lawn repair, seeding and final grading, and it is the last layer you place.

Garden Soil is a blended planting mix for raised beds, vegetable gardens and borders where plain loam alone is too lean. It holds moisture and gives roots something to work into.

Fill Dirt is bulk fill, also called common borrow. It raises grade, backfills and builds up a subbase under a gravel course, and it is the rough material you put down before anything finished.

Shredded Mulch is bark mulch, used on beds, borders and tree rings once the soil work is done.

Base and Driveway Gravel

Type A Gravel is the Maine base course. It is crushed gravel, and it builds driveways, parking pads, camp roads and shed bases.

Bank Run Gravel comes out of the pit as it lies, unprocessed. It is a filler course for bulk fill and rough subbase, not a finished driving surface.

Driveway Gravel is 3/4 inch crushed gravel, the size Maine yards sell for the running surface on a gravel drive or camp road.

Washed Stone and Drainage

3/4" Crushed Stone is 3/4 inch washed stone. It goes in drainage trenches, drywells and pipe bedding, and under drives that have to shed water rather than hold it.

Drain Rock is washed drainage stone for foundation drains, curtain drains and french drains. Maine plans more often call it underdrain material.

Riprap is erosion stone for shore and stream bank armouring, culvert outlets and ditch checks. Yards here sell it in ranges such as 6 inch and 12 to 24 inch.

Sand

Mason Sand is mortar sand for brick and block work, and a fine sand under play areas and above-ground pools.

Washed Sand is screened sand for concrete work, paver bedding and pipe bedding.

Decorative Stone

3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is pea stone, used on walkways, dog runs, play areas and pipe bedding. River Rock is round stone for dry stream beds, drip edges and borders.

Ground and Conditions in Lewiston

Water is what shapes the work here. Snowmelt and spring rain sit on the clay ground because it will not take them, while the sand and gravel terraces a street over drain fast.

Two lots on the same road can behave completely differently through the melt.

That is why a drainage layer matters as much as a base course. Where water has nowhere to go, a clean washed stone like 3/4 inch crushed stone gives it a path down and away instead of letting it sit against a foundation or under a drive.

Spring runoff and ice-out also scour the rivers and their tributaries, and cut slopes gully where the marine clay banks are steepened. Riprap at a culvert outlet or along a bank holds that edge.

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. Base, driveway and paver work runs from the end of mud season into late fall, with a slower spring on the clay ground.

Across the Androscoggin and Kennebec valley lowlands, frost depth is commonly about 4 feet in the valley cities and towns and deeper on the surrounding hills. The local building official sets footing depth, so check with them before you plan any footing work.

Delivery to Lewiston and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives by dump truck and tips in one pile on site. Have the drop spot clear and reachable, with room for the truck to pull in and out, and know where the pile should land before it arrives.

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator if you need to size the load.

Maine Rock Supply delivers across Lewiston and the rest of Androscoggin County, including Auburn, Lisbon, Poland, Turner and Sabattus.

Order Fill, Soil and Gravel for Your Lewiston Project

For grading a yard, bedding a patio, filling a garden bed or building a driveway, Maine Rock Supply delivers the soil, fill and stone for the job. Order online and a truck brings it to your site in Lewiston.