Bulk Gravel and Aggregate Delivery in Vermont

Vermont Rock Supply handles bulk gravel and aggregate delivery across Vermont, from the Champlain Valley clay plain to the river terraces along the Connecticut. Mud season and snowmelt move a lot of water here, and heavy marine clay and silt hold it.

Start with staymat. It is the Vermont yard word for a dense graded crushed base running from about 3/4 inch or 1 inch down to dust, and it locks up tight under a roller.

Materials Delivered Across Vermont

Order by the job. A driveway, a patio and a curtain drain each want a different stone, and the local names are the fastest way to say which one.

Staymat is the everyday base for driveways, parking pads and shed bases. Vermont specifies this work through VTrans Standard Specifications for Construction Section 301, Subbase, which draws its materials from Section 704.

Crushed gravel for subbase (704.05) and dense graded crushed stone for subbase (704.06) sit behind the same yard word.

Bank run gravel, called pit gravel or gravel borrow, is gravel screened from a pit or bank rather than crushed. It goes in as subbase and bulk fill under a thinner crushed top course.

Order it as Bank Run Gravel.

Stone fill is the Vermont word for riprap. Type I runs about 1 inch to 12 inches and lines steep ditches, culvert inlets and outlets, and stream banks.

It is graded by type under Section 706.04. Order Stone Fill.

Vermont buys washed stone by the inch more often than by a number. 3/4" Crushed Stone handles drainage beds, curtain drains, pipe surround and mud-season hardstanding.

For fine drainage, pipe bedding and a tight topping over a compacted base, order 3/8" Crushed Stone. For walkways, dog runs, play areas and dry wells, ask for pea stone: 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel.

Drain Rock covers curtain drains, footing drains, dry wells and downspout runs. VTrans carries the same idea as Drainage Aggregate under 704.16.

#57 Stone and #67 Stone also serve drainage trenches, French drains and concrete aggregate.

Stone dust, also called screenings or crusher dust, is the New England default under flatwork. It beds pavers, bluestone and flagstone.

Order Stone Dust.

For soil, Vermont landscapers say loam rather than topsoil and buy it screened. Top Soil goes on lawns and beds over stony till and heavy clay, while Garden Soil suits raised beds where loam alone sits too heavy.

Fill Dirt raises grade and backfills before the gravel goes on. Mason Sand handles brick and block work, paver joints, sandboxes and fine levelling, and Washed Sand beds and levels under slabs and flatwork.

Ground and Climate Across Vermont

Ground here punishes an under-built base. The Champlain Valley floor is heavy marine clay, silt and fine sand left when the Champlain Sea flooded the lowland, with limestone, dolostone and shale bedrock close beneath.

Through the Green Mountains, thin stony glacial till sits over schist and gneiss on the slopes, with boulders and ledge near the surface. Sand and gravel outwash fills the valley floors along the Lamoille, Winooski, Mad and West rivers.

The Northeast Kingdom runs stony glacial till over granite and schist, with ledge on the hills and peat and wet organic ground in the basins. The Taconics carry slate, phyllite and shale with thin stony till, and the Valley of Vermont runs on till, outwash and marble and limestone bedrock.

The Vermont Piedmont is rolling upland of stony till over schist, phyllite and the Barre granite, with sand, silt and gravel terraces along the Winooski, White, Waits and Ompompanoosuc valleys. The Connecticut River Valley is sand, silt and gravel river terraces and floodplain, with glacial lake silt and clay in the flats.

Water drives the work. Mud season and snowmelt come statewide, with slow-draining clay in the Champlain Valley, dense hardpan till in the Piedmont and the Kingdom, and fast runoff off steep shallow soils in the Green Mountains and the Taconics.

Erosion follows that water: ditch and stream bank scour after heavy rain and snowmelt, washouts at culvert inlets and outlets on gravel road grades, and the channel and road damage left across Vermont by the August 2011 flooding from Tropical Storm Irene.

Base, driveway and paver work runs from the end of mud season into late fall, opening first in the Champlain Valley and the Connecticut River towns and last in the Northeast Kingdom and the high Green Mountain towns.

Frost goes deep across Vermont. Footing depth is set by the town, so confirm the figure with the town office.

Expect the shallowest numbers in the Champlain Valley and the southern river towns and the deepest in the Northeast Kingdom and at elevation.

Where We Deliver in Vermont

Deliveries run statewide, from Chittenden County and Franklin County down through Rutland County, Addison County and Bennington County, and east across Washington County, Orange County, Windsor County and Windham County.

North and east of there, trucks reach Lamoille County, Caledonia County and Orleans County. Wherever a town sits, order online and a dump truck tips the load on site.

How to Order and Size a Load

Order online. Choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, size the load with the calculator on each product page, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile on site. Have a clear, firm spot for it that stays off the road and off soft shoulders still holding mud-season water.

Order Staymat and Washed Stone for Vermont Ground

Staymat is the base Vermont yards name by habit, and crushed gravel and dense graded crushed stone are the spec words behind it. With a quantity by the ton or the yard and a delivery date, the rest is ground already prepared for the truck.

Order bulk gravel and aggregate delivery across Vermont from Vermont Rock Supply.