Bulk Material Delivery in Bay, AR

If you are pricing gravel and aggregate delivery in Bay, AR, the first question is usually which stone holds a ditch bank or a wet slope. Arkansas Rock Supply sells bulk gravel, stone, sand, soil and mulch with delivery across Craighead County.

SB-2 base is the local name for the dense graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone that locks up under a roller, and it is where most pads and drives start. On this flat Delta ground, though, coarse stone is what keeps water where you want it.

Materials for Bay Projects

Bay sits on flat ground with a high water table, so slope, swale and bank protection come down to stone size. Coarse, angular rock holds a bank; rounded rock does not.

Start at the heavy end and work down.

RipRap is the heaviest option, and it is what you want on a slough bank, a ditch check or a culvert outlet where moving water is undercutting the edge. Broken sandstone and limestone give it the angular faces that interlock on a slope.

#4 Crushed Stone works below that as heavy drainage and trench bottom stone. It also stabilizes soft, saturated ground, which is the usual problem on Delta clay after a wet winter.

For a French drain, a foundation drain or a downspout run, #57 Limestone is the washed size to order. It is clean, with no fines to hold water, so it drains instead of trapping it.

3/4" Crushed Stone is a smaller clean stone for drainage beds and drive surfacing. Screenings sit at the fine end, bedding pavers and flagstone and filling joints for a tight walking surface.

Delivery to Bay and the Surrounding Area

You order online and pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site. Delivery covers Bay and the rest of Craighead County, including Jonesboro, Brookland, Bono, Lake City and Monette.

Quantity is chosen by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load before you order.

For a bank or swale job, be ready with the area you are armoring and how steep it runs.

Think about where the truck can reach before the delivery date. A pile of rip rap or #4 stone has to land somewhere it can be worked from, and wet ground is the real constraint on access here.

Ground and Conditions in Bay

This is Mississippi Alluvial Plain ground: deep silt loam and heavy clay, the buckshot and gumbo the Delta is known for. Clay that barely takes water means rain stands where it falls, and field ditches and bayous drain slowly.

That is the case for a clean, open-graded stone in any drainage run. A washed stone lets water pass; a fines-bearing material in the same trench holds it against your foundation.

Base work and bank work both go best in the dry spell, when the clay shrinks and cracks.

Winters here are short and mild, and frost is shallow. The problem is not frost.

Saturated clay will rut a loaded drive deeply with no frost involved at all, so plan your delivery for ground that will take a truck.

Order Bulk Stone and Gravel for Bay

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand, soil and mulch to Bay and the rest of Craighead County. If you are armoring a bank, cutting a swale or bedding a drain, choose your material and quantity online and pick a delivery date at checkout.