Rip Rap, Stone and Soil Delivery in Magazine, AR

If your question is what to put on a slope before the next storm takes it, the answer is usually coarse stone. Arkansas Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Magazine, AR, from SB-2 base for drives and pads to rip rap for banks and swales.

This part of the Arkansas River Valley gives you clay and silt ground that moves once it is wet. Coarse, angular stone is what holds that ground in place.

Materials for Magazine Projects

Slope, swale and bank work in Magazine starts with stone that is big enough to stay put. Rip rap is the heaviest option, and it is what goes on steep banks, culvert outlets and ditch checks.

See RipRap for the sizes sold in central Arkansas.

Large river rock and river gravel work where you want a rounded stone instead of a broken one. Large river rock suits dry creek beds, heavier decorative beds and light bank work.

Arkansas suppliers say river gravel or creek gravel as often as river rock.

• RipRap: bank and slope armoring, culvert outlets and ditch checks.
• Large River Rock: dry creek beds, heavy decorative work and light bank protection.
• Arkansas River Rock: decorative beds, borders, dry creek beds and splash pads.
• Drain Rock: French drains, dry wells, foundation drains and downspout runs.

On flat ground, #57 limestone is the washed size for French drains, foundation and pipe drainage, and a clean top over a compacted base. #4 crushed stone goes where the stone is heavy and the water is fast.

Where the ground needs to lock up instead of drain, SB-2 base is the dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in. Cities and engineers write the same material into street and parking standards as Class 7 base.

Ground and Conditions in Magazine

Work in this part of the valley runs nearly all year. The real limit is a wet late winter and spring, and summer heat that dries a surface before it can be rolled.

Across the Arkansas River Valley, the bottoms are deep silt loam and clay, with shale and sandstone uplands between them. Clay subsoils let go of water slowly, and flat bottomland sits on a high water table near the river.

That is why wet ground, not cold, is the reason to build a proper base depth here. Frost action is shallow, and a wet clay subgrade softens and pumps under traffic all winter.

Bank scour and flood flow along the river and its lakes are the other driver, plus sheet erosion off bare valley clay in spring thunderstorms. Coarse stone on the banks and clean drainage stone behind a wall both answer that.

You can take delivery on a date you pick at checkout, so timing a load around the weather is up to you.

Delivery to Magazine and the Surrounding Area

Order online, choose your 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 before you order.

Magazine sits in Logan County, and delivery covers the town and the county around it, including Booneville, Paris, Subiaco, New Blaine and Scranton. A dump truck tips the load in one pile at your site.

Stone and Soil Delivered Across Magazine and Logan County

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers rip rap, drainage stone, SB-2 base, sand, topsoil and mulch to Magazine and the rest of Logan County. Pick your material, set your quantity and choose a delivery date at checkout to get your order on the way.