Order SB-2 Base and Crushed Stone in Prairie County, AR
Arkansas Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Prairie County, AR. Work here runs all year, and wet winter and spring ground is the real constraint on a driveway or pad project.
SB-2 base is the standard Arkansas base material: a dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in so it locks up under a roller. Order online and a dump truck tips the load on site.
Materials Delivered in Prairie County
SB-2 base, also written SB2 or base stone, is the material to start with. It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads and pipe bedding.
Arkansas cities and engineers write the same material into street, sidewalk and parking standards as Class 7 base. Use that name when you are working to a written spec.
Section 302 covers select material used as a foundation course underneath. Class 8 base is the same idea in a 1 inch minus size.
Washed stone handles water. #57 Limestone is the workhorse washed size for French drains, foundation and pipe drainage and concrete aggregate.
3/4" Crushed Stone is a clean stone with no fines for drainage beds, construction entrances and drive surfacing. Drain Rock, also called filter rock, suits French drains, dry wells and downspout runs.
Sand beds and levels. Washed Sand, also called concrete sand or river sand, goes under slabs and pools.
Mason Sand is for brick, block and stone work, paver joints and play sand.
Soil and mulch finish the job. Top Soil comes screened for lawns, grading and bed prep.
Fill Dirt raises low ground and builds a pad up out of the wet before a base course goes on. Shredded Mulch holds moisture in beds and tree rings.
Decorative stone covers the ground you look at. Arkansas River Rock, which suppliers here also call river gravel or creek gravel, works in decorative beds, borders and dry creek beds.
3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is rounded and washed, for walkways, play areas and dog runs.
Delivery Across Prairie County
Ordering is online. Choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, size the load with the calculator on the product page, and pick a delivery date at checkout.
A dump truck then tips the load on site in one pile.
Have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives. Bulk material is heavy and the truck needs room to back in and tip.
Delivery covers Hazen, Des Arc, De Valls Bluff and Biscoe along with the rest of the county.
Ground Conditions Across Prairie County
Prairie County sits on the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. The ground is deep alluvial silt loam, silty clay and heavy clay, the buckshot and gumbo ground the Delta is known for, with sandier natural levee ridges and older terraces such as the Grand Prairie.
That clay barely takes water. The ground is flat, the water table is high, and rain stands where it falls while field ditches and bayous drain slowly.
Backwater can hold water for days.
A base course is what keeps a drive or pad from pumping and rutting when the ground stays wet. SB-2 base with its fines left in compacts into a surface that sheds water instead of holding it.
Where water has nowhere to go, a washed stone drainage layer moves it.
Bare cropland silt sheets off in a storm, and ditch and bayou banks slough. Rip rap armors those banks and culvert outlets.
Midsummer, when the clay shrinks and cracks, is the best window for base work. Frost is shallow here, but saturated clay ruts a drive through the winter with no frost involved.
Choosing the Right Material
Lonoke County and Arkansas County share Prairie County's ground region, the same deep alluvial silt loam, silty clay and heavy clay laid down by the rivers. The ground is the same, so the base and drainage choice is the same.
White County is the one that differs. It spans more than one zone, reaching from the Mississippi Alluvial Plain into the Ozark Plateaus.
On the Ozark Plateaus side the ground is rock and karst rather than Delta clay, so water moves down instead of standing.
That difference changes the choice. On Delta clay, SB-2 base and a washed stone drainage layer carry the load.
On rock ground, drainage is less of a fight and the base depth question changes.
Order Base, Stone and Soil for Prairie County Projects
Arkansas Rock Supply supplies SB-2 base, washed stone, sand, soil, mulch and decorative rock for driveways, parking pads, building pads, drainage, bank armoring and garden beds across Prairie County. Order online, size the load with the calculator, and pick your delivery date at checkout.