Bulk Material Delivery in Madawaska, ME

For gravel and aggregate delivery in Madawaska, ME, the ground under your work sets the plan. Across the Aroostook plateau and Saint John uplands, deep, well drained silt loam sits over limestone, slate and calcareous shale, and it grades to stony till in the hills.

Maine Rock Supply delivers Type A gravel, washed stone, sand and soil in bulk by the ton. Deep silt loam drains well in the middle of a season, but it runs and crusts when it is saturated, so the base you put down has to handle water before it handles traffic.

Materials for Madawaska Projects

Water is the part of a Madawaska job that gets decided in the ground, not the driveway. Washed stone, drain rock and the right size of crushed stone keep foundation drains, drywells and downspout runs moving water away from a footing or a slab.

Clean, open stone is what those drains want, because the voids pass water instead of holding it. Fines-bearing gravels belong under a driving surface, not inside a drain.

Washed stone for drainage

3/4" Crushed Stone is the size Maine yards call 3/4 inch washed stone, and it suits drainage trenches and drywells. #57 Stone is a clean drainage stone that also works as a base under slabs and pads.

Drain Rock is washed underdrain stone for foundation drains, curtain drains and french drains, and it is what runs under a downspout line. #4 Crushed Stone, sold as 1 1/2 inch stone, stabilizes soft ground and wet subgrade before a gravel course goes on.

Base and surface gravel

It goes under driveways, parking pads, camp roads and shed bases.

Driveway Gravel is the 3/4 inch crushed gravel that acts as the top course on a gravel drive. Bank Run Gravel is unprocessed pit gravel for bulk fill and rough subbase.

Bedding, joint and finish stone

Stone Dust, or screenings, is the setting bed under pavers, flagstone and walkway stone. 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel, which yards here call pea stone, covers walkways, dog runs, play areas and pipe bedding.

Delivery to Madawaska and the Surrounding Area

Ordering happens online. You choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page carries a calculator you can use to size the load.

You pick your delivery date at checkout.

Maine Rock Supply delivers bulk material to Madawaska and to the rest of Aroostook County, including Presque Isle, Caribou, Houlton, Fort Kent and Fort Fairfield. A dump truck tips your load on site in one pile.

Ground and Conditions in Madawaska

Timing a delivery here is mostly about frost. This part of the state has the shortest working season in Maine, with the ground frozen for much of the year and hard frost returning early in the fall.

Base and paver work waits for a late breakup. Snowpack is deep, and the melt arrives all at once into ground that is still frozen below, so the silt loam soils run and crust while they are saturated.

That combination drives sheet and gully erosion on long cultivated slopes during snowmelt and heavy rain, plus ditch and culvert scour and bank cutting along the Saint John uplands. A hard, late breakup also heaves and softens gravel roads and drives.

Frost runs deep here, five feet or more in the region, and there is no published statewide table. The town or city building official gives the figure for footing depth.

Below an aggregate base, though, a drainage layer matters more than depth alone.

For shore and stream bank armouring, culvert outlets and ditch checks, Riprap is the erosion stone yards sell in ranges such as 6 inch and 12 to 24 inch.

Order Bulk Aggregate in Madawaska

Maine Rock Supply covers Madawaska and the rest of Aroostook County with bulk delivery of Type A gravel, washed stone, sand, soil and erosion stone. Choose your material, set the quantity by the ton or yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Place your order online when you are ready.