Bulk Aggregate Delivery Across Lincoln County, NM
New Mexico Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Lincoln County, NM. If you are building on stony mountain ground or alkaline basin floor, the first order is base course.
Base course is what New Mexico calls road base. It is a compacted base for drives, parking pads and slab or shed bases.
Delivery across Lincoln County
Order online and pick your quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator for sizing a load, and you choose a delivery date at checkout.
A dump truck tips the load in one pile on site. Delivery covers Ruidoso, Ruidoso Downs, Capitan, Carrizozo, Nogal, Corona, Alto, Glencoe, Hondo, San Patricio and Tinnie.
Have the drop spot clear and reachable for a truck before the date you pick.
Materials delivered in Lincoln County
Match the material to the job. A driveway, a patio and a French drain each want something different.
Base course carries the most weight in the mix here.
Section 303 sets two gradation bands, Type I and Type II, both passing a 1 inch sieve. City specifications follow the same definition.
That tells you how the material is specified in New Mexico, nothing more.
Around the yard, base course is also called Type I base course, Type II base course, or 3/4 minus. Caliche is a real New Mexico word for both a base course constituent and the hard layer a crew has to break through.
Ground conditions across Lincoln County
Across the Central mountains and closed basins, the ground runs to stony limestone and granite soils in the mountains. Basin floors carry alkaline silt and clay, and caliche is common there.
A closed basin has nowhere to send water, so playa ground fills and stays wet for weeks. Up in the mountains, a monsoon storm runs off rock and thin soil within minutes.
That runoff cuts mountain drainages and forest roads, and post fire runoff off burn scars carries heavy sediment. Wind and sheet erosion work across the open basin floors.
Spring through late fall is the working season. Snow and frozen ground shut down the high villages in winter, and basin ground stays soft well after a thaw.
In the highest villages, cold for their latitude because of height, frost depth commonly runs 18 to 24 inches, and the county building official sets footing depth.
Choosing the right material
Chaves County sits on Pecos Valley and Permian Basin ground, with alluvial valley soils along the Pecos, sandy and gravelly terraces, and caliche and gypsum through the subsoil. Sinkhole and karst ground appears where Permian gypsum and limestone dissolve.
That is a different set of conditions from the Central mountains and closed basins, and it changes what a base has to do. Caliche and gypsum subsoil moves water differently than stony mountain ground.
De Baca County spans more than one zone, covering Eastern High Plains, Llano Estacado and Canadian breaks alongside Pecos Valley and Permian Basin ground. Socorro County also spans zones, taking in Middle Rio Grande valley and rift ground along with Mogollon-Datil volcanic highlands and Gila country.
For a driveway, base course goes down as the compacted base, with driveway gravel surfacing on top. For a patio, crusher fines pack to a firm walkable crust.
For a drain, drain rock in a French drain or dry well moves water.
Order base course for your Lincoln County project
Base course is the local material most Lincoln County ground asks for. Order online and size your load by the ton or by the yard.
Pick your delivery date at checkout and let the truck tip it on site.