Rip Rap and Bulk Aggregates for Waterford, ME

Maine Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Waterford, ME straight to your site. Start by sizing the load with the calculator on each product page, then pick your material.

Type A gravel is the Maine base course, and it carries most drive and pad work here. This ground also asks for coarse stone that holds a bank, so that is where the page leads.

Materials for Waterford Projects

Slope, swale and bank work in the Western mountains and foothills calls for big angular stone that stays put when water runs at it. Riprap is the armouring grade, sold in ranges such as 6 inch and 12 to 24 inch, and it goes on shore and stream banks, culvert outlets and ditch checks.

Where the water has to move instead of being blocked, drainage stone does the work.

Coarse stone for water and banks

• Riprap for shore and stream bank armouring, culvert outlets and ditch checks.
• #4 Crushed Stone, the 1 1/2 inch size, for heavy drainage, wet subgrade and firming soft ground before a gravel course goes on.
• Drain Rock for foundation drains, curtain drains and french drains.
• 3/4" Crushed Stone for drainage trenches, drywells and pipe bedding.

Base and surface stone

Type A gravel is the compacted base under drives, parking pads, camp roads and shed bases.

Order it at Type A Gravel.

Above that base, 3/4 inch crushed gravel is the running surface Maine yards sell for the top of a gravel drive. See Driveway Gravel.

For bedding under flatwork, stone dust is the New England default and is sold locally as screenings or crusher dust. It is available at Stone Dust.

Walkways, dog runs, play areas and pipe bedding take pea stone, which is what Maine yards say far more often than Natural Pea Gravel. Order it at 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel.

Delivery to Waterford and the Surrounding Area

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 for sizing the load.

A dump truck then tips your material on site in one pile.

Maine Rock Supply delivers to Waterford and across Oxford County, including Rumford, Norway, Oxford, Fryeburg and Mexico. The truck needs a spot it can reach and turn around, with room for the pile to land clear of buildings, wires and soft ground.

Have the site open before the truck arrives. If you are staging a slope or drainage job, get the coarse stone in place first so the finer courses go onto something stable.

Ground and Conditions in Waterford

Waterford sits in the Western mountains and foothills, and this is the shortest working season outside Aroostook County. Late mud season at elevation and early hard frost in fall leave a narrow window for base, driveway and paver work.

Plan your delivery around that window rather than after it. Ground that is still thawing will not take a load the way dry ground does.

The ground itself is thin stony till over hard bedrock on the slopes, with ledge outcropping widely. Deeper sandy till and boulder ground sits on the lower hills, and sand and gravel outwash terraces run along the mountain valleys and lakeshores.

The drainage problem follows the slope. Steep ground concentrates snowmelt and rain into fast runoff, and thin soil over ledge cannot absorb it, so the water that the hills shed lands on the valley floors below.

That is why riprap, drain rock and the larger crushed sizes matter on this ground. They are what you put where water arrives with force.

Erosion shows up as steep-slope runoff cutting drives and ditches, scour at culverts and stream crossings after snowmelt and heavy rain, and shoreline erosion from ice and wave action. Frost on high ground is deep and the thaw is late, so gravel drives heave and rut as the frost comes out.

The local building official sets footing depth.

Order Bulk Aggregate for Your Waterford Site

Maine Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and loam to Waterford and the rest of Oxford County. Size your load with the calculator, pick a delivery date at checkout, and the truck brings it to your site.

Place your order online when you are ready.