Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Southport, ME

For gravel and aggregate delivery in Southport, ME, Maine Rock Supply sells bulk material by the ton and the yard. Size the load with the calculator on each product page, then pick your delivery date at checkout.

Start with Type A gravel, the Maine base course, and build the rest of the order around the job. Thin stony till over ledge is what most of this ground gives you to work with.

Delivery to Southport and the Surrounding Area

Order online and set the quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page carries a calculator, so you can size a load before you commit to it.

A dump truck tips the material on site in one pile. That is the whole of it, and it works the same whether the job is in Southport or over in Bristol.

Southport sits in Lincoln County, and delivery reaches the surrounding towns, including Waldoboro, Wiscasset, Boothbay and Jefferson. Choose the delivery date at checkout and the truck arrives.

Materials for Southport Projects

Raising grade and building pads is where most of this ground sends you first. Marine clay fills the low ground, so a pad has to come up before anything finished goes on top of it.

Bank run gravel is unprocessed pit gravel, and it is the filler course for bulk fill, raising grade and rough subbase. It comes out of the pit as it lies, so it is not a finished driving surface.

Order it through Bank Run Gravel.

Type A gravel is the crushed gravel base course that goes over that fill. It carries driveways, parking pads, camp roads and shed bases.

Order it as Type A Gravel.

Where you need bulk fill or backfill instead of a graded course, Fill Dirt is the common borrow that gets a site up to grade.

For the running surface on a gravel drive, 3/4 inch crushed gravel is the size Maine yards sell for the top course. See Driveway Gravel.

Under pavers, flagstone or a patio, stone dust is the New England setting bed. It beds flatwork through Stone Dust.

Wet ground needs a clean open stone rather than a fines-bearing one. Drain Rock and 3/4" Crushed Stone shed water in trenches, drywells and pipe bedding.

Ground and Conditions in Southport

Across the Midcoast peninsulas and Penobscot Bay, thin stony till sits over granite and metamorphic ledge on the ridges. Presumpscot marine clay and silt fill the valleys and coves, with pockets of outwash sand and gravel between them.

Ledge close to the surface gives water nowhere to go. Where marine clay fills the low ground between ridges, it holds water at the surface through snowmelt and mud season.

That is why an under-built base shows up so fast here. A pad or drive that skips the fill and sub-base work settles and pumps once the clay underneath stays wet.

On the shoreline, wave action and storm surge work on an elaborate coast. Scour hits culverts and stream crossings on steep short runs to the sea, and clay banks slump along the tidal rivers.

Work runs from the end of mud season into late fall, and access narrows the shoulder seasons at either end. Springs bring repeated freeze and thaw, which heaves gravel drives, camp roads and unpaved landings.

Order Type A Gravel and Base Material in Southport

Type A gravel is the base course most Southport work builds on, and it is the material to start with when you are raising grade or cutting in a pad. Pair it with bank run gravel underneath and the right drainage stone where water sits.

Order online by the ton or the yard and set your delivery date at checkout.