Bulk Gravel Delivery to Continental Divide, NM

For gravel and aggregate delivery in Continental Divide, NM, start with the job and work back to the material. New Mexico Rock Supply sells bulk aggregate online, and base course is the name you will use for the compacted layer under a drive, a parking pad or a slab.

This is mesa country in McKinley County, where thin sandy ground sits over caliche in places and water runs off fast when it rains. What goes down first decides how the rest of the job holds up.

Ground and Conditions in Continental Divide

Across the Colorado Plateau and San Juan Basin, a thin base layer is where drives and pads start to show trouble. The surface ruts, the edges break away, and water finds the low spots.

The ground underneath is the other half. Expansive clay swells when it is wet and shrinks as it dries, which lifts and cracks flatwork set straight on it.

Caliche in the older terrace gravels is cemented hard and does not drain.

Monsoon runoff reaches the washes fast here because shale clay and slickrock shed water instead of taking it. Spring snowmelt does the same, and low yards pond while bare shale badlands cut into gullies.

The working season runs from spring into late fall. Winter freezes the ground, and wet clay in a March thaw will not compact, so a base placed then will not hold.

Materials for Continental Divide Projects

Pavers and flatwork stand or fail on the bedding under them. The bedding carries the load evenly, keeps the units from rocking, and lets water move instead of sitting against the underside.

For a compacted base under a drive, a parking pad, or a slab and shed base, Base Course is the material. It is also called Type I or Type II base course and 3/4 minus, and it is what New Mexico calls road base.

Above a compacted base, 3/8" Crushed Stone works as a topping course. The same gray crushed 3/8 goes into fine drainage and pipe bedding.

Under pavers and flagstone, Stone Screenings bed the units and fill the joints. New Mexico yards more often reach for crusher fines in that spot, and Crusher Fines pack to a firm, walkable crust for paths, patios, courtyards and dog runs.

Under a slab or flatwork, Washed Sand beds and levels the pour. Mason Sand, also listed as plaster sand, is the one for block, brick and adobe work, stucco and plaster coats, and paver joints.

Where water has to leave the site, Drain Rock fills French drains, dry wells and foundation drains, and RipRap armors arroyo banks and culvert outlets against flash flow.

Delivery to Continental Divide and the Surrounding Area

You order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size the load to the job before you check out.

Pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site as one pile. We deliver in McKinley County, including Gallup, Thoreau, Gamerco, Prewitt and Tohatchi, as well as Continental Divide itself.

Order Bulk Aggregate for Your Continental Divide Project

Size the load first, then place the order. Each product page has a calculator that works in tons or yards, so you can match the quantity to the area you are covering.

New Mexico Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate across McKinley County, and you can order base course, sand, drain rock or crusher fines online today.