Rip Rap and Bulk Aggregates for Prairie Grove, AR

Arkansas Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Prairie Grove, AR to jobs that fight water. On the Ozark Plateaus, runoff drops through sinkholes and fractured limestone instead of running off.

What is left sits in the clay until it lets go, and it lets go fast down a hollow slope. Coarse stone and SB-2 base answer that.

Materials for Prairie Grove Projects

Water on a slope is a stone size problem. Big angular rock slows the flow and holds the bank.

Smaller washed sizes move the water away. Fines build the surface you walk and park on.

Start at the top of the size range. RipRap armors creek banks, culvert outlets, ditch checks and steep swale walls.

Broken sandstone and limestone give it the angular edges that hold on a grade.

#4 Crushed Stone works trench bottoms and heavy drainage where a large open stone is wanted. Railroad Ballast takes the same idea into track beds and heavy hard standing.

Step down to the washed drainage sizes. #57 Limestone is the workhorse: French drains, foundation and pipe drainage, and a clean top over a compacted base.

3/4" Crushed Stone does drainage beds and construction entrances.

Drain Rock handles French drains, dry wells and downspout runs. #67 Stone covers drainage one size down from #57.

Now the base course. SB-2 base, also called SB2 or base stone, is the standard Arkansas material: a dense graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in so it locks up under a roller.

Use it for driveways, parking pads and shed pads.

Working to a written standard? Arkansas cities and engineers write the same material as Class 7 base or Class 7 aggregate base course.

Crusher Run is the finer dense graded option for drives and pads that need to bind and compact.

Finish with the fine end. Screenings, or limestone fines, bed pavers, flagstone and brick, fill joints and make a tight walking surface.

Washed Sand beds and levels under slabs and pools, and Mason Sand handles brick, block and stone work and paver joints.

For planting, Top Soil grades lawns and preps beds, and Fill Dirt raises low ground before a base course goes on.

Delivery to Prairie Grove and the Surrounding Area

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

Bulk delivery reaches Prairie Grove and the rest of Washington County, including Fayetteville, Springdale, Farmington, Elkins and West Fork. A dump truck tips the load in one pile on your site, so plan where you want it to land.

Ground and Conditions in Prairie Grove

Base and drive work runs almost all year here. Winter cold snaps and a wet spring are the interruptions.

The late summer dry spell is the easiest stretch to get real compaction.

The soil is cherty, acid clay loam over limestone and dolostone, with chert gravel through the whole profile. On side slopes, rock or rubble sits close to the surface.

That shallow rock makes grading a cut unpredictable.

Water is the bigger issue. Sinkholes, springs, losing streams and caves sit under these plateau tops, so runoff disappears underground fast.

The residual clay filling the joints still holds water at the surface after a long rain.

Then spring storms scour drive shoulders, culvert outlets and creek banks on the steep hollow slopes. Coarse stone at those points absorbs the energy.

Grade the swale, armor the outlet, and keep the fines out of the drainage layer.

Order Bulk Stone for Prairie Grove

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers rip rap, washed stone, SB-2 base, sand and topsoil across Prairie Grove and Washington County. Order online by the ton or yard, pick your delivery date at checkout, and the truck brings it to your site.