3/4 Inch Crushed Stone and Bulk Aggregates for Portage, ME

If you are pricing gravel and aggregate delivery in Portage, ME, the question is usually which stone to put where. Maine Rock Supply sells Type A gravel, washed stone, sand and soil in bulk, ordered online and tipped on site.

This part of Aroostook County sits on deep, well drained silt loam over limestone, slate and calcareous shale. That ground takes water slowly once it is saturated, so drainage work matters here.

Materials for Portage Projects

Start with the washed sizes. Water is the thing that ruins a camp road, a foundation drain or a driveway in this county, and clean stone is how you move it away from what you built.

3/4" Crushed Stone, which yards here call 3/4 inch washed stone, is the workhorse for drainage trenches, drywells and pipe bedding. The washed surface means water passes through instead of sitting in the voids.

3/8" Crushed Stone does the same job in tight spots: narrow trenches, downspout runs and fine drainage layers where the coarser stone will not fit.

For heavier water, #4 Crushed Stone is the 1 1/2 inch size Maine yards list in inches. It handles wet subgrade and stabilizes soft ground before a gravel course goes on top.

Drain Rock covers foundation drains, curtain drains and french drains. Local plans more often call it underdrain material or washed stone, and it is the clean stone a footing drain needs.

Where a drywell or a downspout run has to shed water fast, #57 Stone and #67 Stone are the slightly smaller washed options. Maine suppliers usually sell #57 as 3/4 inch washed stone.

Once the water is handled, build the surface. Type A Gravel is the Maine base course for driveways, parking pads, camp roads and shed bases.

Driveway Gravel, sold as 3/4 inch crushed gravel, is the running surface on a gravel drive. Stone Dust beds pavers, flagstone and walkway stone.

Delivery to Portage and the Surrounding Area

Ordering runs online. You choose the material, set the quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile at the site. Delivery covers Portage and the rest of Aroostook County, including Presque Isle, Caribou, Houlton, Fort Kent and Madawaska.

Ground and Conditions in Portage

Timing is the first decision on any job here. Across the Aroostook plateau and Saint John uplands the ground stays frozen for much of the year, and breakup comes late.

Snowpack is deep and the melt arrives all at once into ground that is still frozen below. Silt loam farm soils run and crust when they are saturated, so a load tipped onto soft ground can sit there.

That is why drainage stone goes in before a surface course. A driveway or camp road built over wet subgrade will heave and soften, and the fix is a clean stone layer that lets water out.

Frost is the deepest and longest in the state, with a hard, late breakup that heaves gravel roads and drives. Frost depth runs 5 feet or more, and the town or city building official gives the figure for footing work.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Snowmelt and heavy rain cut sheet and gully erosion on long slopes, scour ditches and culvert outlets, and cut banks along the rivers.

Riprap armours culvert outlets, ditch checks and stream banks. River Rock, sold locally as round stone, suits dry stream beds and drip edges.

Order Bulk Aggregates for Your Portage Project

Maine Rock Supply delivers Type A gravel, washed stone, sand, soil and decorative rock to Portage and the surrounding Aroostook County area. Choose your material, set the quantity, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Order online when your site is ready.