Rip Rap and Bulk Aggregates for Austin, AR

Arkansas Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Austin, AR. This is flat Delta ground, and rain stands where it falls.

Coarse stone is how you move that water and hold a bank.

Start with SB-2 base for drives and pads, then step up in size for slope and swale work. Every load comes by dump truck to your site in Lonoke County.

Materials for Austin Projects

Water is the driver here. Swales, ditch banks and creek edges all need stone big enough to stay put when the ground is saturated.

RipRap is the heaviest answer. Broken sandstone, limestone or syenite armor a bank, a culvert outlet or a ditch check so moving water cannot pull the soil out from under it.

#4 Crushed Stone sits a step below that. Use it for heavy drainage, construction entrances and trench bottoms, and to firm up soft ground before anything else goes down.

#57 Limestone is the washed workhorse. It feeds French drains, foundation and pipe drainage, and makes a clean top layer over compacted base.

3/4" Crushed Stone is the same story one size down. Drainage beds, construction entrances and drive surfacing all take it well.

For the structural work, SB-2 Base is the standard Arkansas material. It is a dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in, so it locks up under a roller.

Arkansas cities and engineers write the same material into street, sidewalk and parking standards as Class 7 base. Reach for that name when you are building to a written spec.

Screenings are the fine end of the range. They bed pavers, flagstone and brick, fill joints and leave a tight walking surface.

Delivery to Austin and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick a delivery date at checkout. Quantities go by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load.

A dump truck tips your material on site in one pile, so have the drop spot clear and reachable before it backs in.

Coverage runs across Lonoke County, including Cabot, Ward, Lonoke, England and Carlisle. Rural and county-road properties get the same service as lots in town.

Ground and Conditions in Austin

Work runs all year across the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. Wet winter and spring ground is the real constraint, not cold.

The soil is deep alluvial silt loam, silty clay and heavy clay, with sandier ridges in places. Clay barely takes water, so rain sits and field ditches drain slowly.

That is why a base course matters more than depth here. SB-2 base over firm, drained ground holds up; the same material over saturated clay will not.

Midsummer is the window. The dry spell shrinks and cracks the clay, and that is the best time to build pads and drives.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Bare ground silts off in sheets, ditch and bayou banks slough, and rip rap is what stops it.

Order Rip Rap and Aggregate in Austin

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil to Austin and the rest of Lonoke County. Pick your material, size the load and choose a delivery date at checkout.

Order SB-2 base, rip rap or washed stone for your next job.