What is the difference between crushed stone and Natural Pea Gravel?

Crushed stone is angular, with broken faces that grip and interlock, so it holds position in a base or a drainage bed. Pea stone is rounded and smooth, which makes it comfortable to walk on and easy to rake but poor at locking together. Use crushed stone where the material has to carry load or move water, and pea stone for walkways, dog runs, play areas and dry wells.

Should I order material by the ton or by the yard?

Both work, and the choice comes down to how you measured the job. Tons are weight, yards are volume, and the two relate through the density of the material, which changes from one product to the next. Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load. Pick the unit that matches your figures and order online.

Which stone is best for drainage in Grand Isle County?

Washed, open-graded stone is the right choice on this ground. 3/4 inch crushed stone handles drainage beds, curtain drains and pipe surround, and 3/8 inch crushed stone covers finer drainage and pipe bedding. For heavier flow, drain rock serves curtain drains, footing drains, dry wells and downspout runs. Stone fill lines ditches and armours culvert inlets and outlets where water moves fast.

Gravel, Soil and Stone for Grand Isle County, VT

Vermont Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Grand Isle County, VT, and staymat leads the list. Staymat is the Vermont yard word for a dense graded crushed base that runs from about an inch down to dust and locks up tight under a roller.

Water is the reason. Clay ground across the Champlain Valley drains slowly and holds snowmelt and summer storm runoff at the surface, so a drive here needs a drainage course as much as it needs a base.

Ground Conditions Across Grand Isle County

Work starts earlier in the Champlain Valley than anywhere else in Vermont because the valley dries first. The clay still stays soft for weeks through mud season and ruts under a loaded truck.

That sets your delivery timing. Order once the ground has firmed enough to carry a dump truck, or plan on repairing ruts after the load tips.

The ground itself is heavy marine clay, silt and fine sand left when the Champlain Sea flooded the lowland. Sand deltas and gravel terraces sit where the rivers came in, with limestone, dolostone and shale bedrock close beneath.

Flat ground and a high water table near the lake keep water sitting on the surface. Expect that after snowmelt and after summer storms.

Erosion follows the same pattern: sheet wash and gullying on bare clay, bank scour where streams cut into the clay plain, and wave action along the Lake Champlain shoreline at high water.

Winters run the mildest in Vermont, but the ground still freezes hard and thaws repeatedly. Clay that holds water heaves a gravel drive more than a sandy soil does.

Frost depth is set by the town. Confirm footing depth with the town office for your project.

Materials Delivered in Grand Isle County

Sizes run coarse to fine, and each one answers a different job on this ground.

Staymat carries the most weight on this ground. It is a dense graded crushed base, and Vermont specifies that kind of material through VTrans Standard Specifications Section 301 for subbase, drawing on Section 704 gravels.

Bank run gravel is screened rather than crushed, which is why a road standard asks for a foot or more of it under a thinner crushed top course. Stone fill is the Vermont word for riprap.

Choosing the Right Material

Grand Isle County sits on the Champlain Valley clay plain, so the base and drainage choices follow that ground. Clay drains slowly and holds water, and a drive on it needs a drainage course under the running surface.

Match the material to the job. Staymat for a compacted base under drives and pads.

Bank run gravel for subbase and bulk fill.

Washed stone for water. 3/4 inch crushed stone for drainage beds, curtain drains and pipe surround, with 3/8" Crushed Stone for finer drainage and pipe bedding.

Stone dust beds pavers, bluestone and flagstone, and binds a path surface. Pea stone suits walkways and dry wells.

Stone fill lines steep ditches and armours culvert inlets and outlets. Use it where moving water would otherwise cut the clay.

Screened loam rebuilds a lawn over stony till, and Garden Soil goes into raised beds where loam alone sits heavy. Fill Dirt raises grade and backfills before gravel goes on.

Delivery Across Grand Isle County

Vermont Rock Supply delivers bulk across Grand Isle County, including Alburgh, Grand Isle, South Hero, North Hero and Isle la Motte.

Order online. Choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Each product page has a calculator to help size the load. A dump truck tips the material on site in one pile, so have the spot clear before the truck arrives.

Ground conditions decide the date more than distance does. A soft clay drive ruts under a loaded truck, so time the delivery for ground that will carry it.

Resurfacing after mud season is Driveway Gravel work. Finer walkable paths take Walkway Gravel.

Order Gravel, Stone and Soil for Grand Isle County

Vermont Rock Supply covers Grand Isle County with bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil, including Alburgh, Grand Isle, South Hero, North Hero and Isle la Motte. Pick your material, size the load by the ton or the yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout.

Order online and a dump truck tips it on site.

Staymat, Sand and Gravel Delivery in Grand Isle County, VT