San Juan County, NM Gravel and Landscape Rock Delivery
New Mexico Rock Supply brings gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in San Juan County, NM to Farmington, Shiprock, Bloomfield, Aztec and the surrounding communities. Base course is the material that starts most of it, and it is the name to use here.
Each product page carries a calculator, so you can size a load by the ton or the yard before you order. The truck tips the pile on site and you take it from there.
Delivery across San Juan County
You order online by the ton or by the yard, size the load with the calculator on the product page, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the material in one pile at your site.
Coverage runs across the county, from Farmington and Bloomfield to Aztec, Flora Vista, La Plata, Waterflow, Kirtland, Blanco, Fruitland, Navajo Dam and Shiprock.
Bulk loads are heavy and the ground here is often soft or uneven, so it helps to have the drop spot clear before the truck arrives. The driver tips the load and leaves it in a single pile.
Materials delivered in San Juan County
Base course is the local name for road base. That section allows crushed stone, crushed or screened gravel, caliche, sand and recycled asphalt or concrete pavement, and sets Type I and Type II gradation bands, both passing a 1 inch sieve.
City specifications follow the same definition, so base course is the term to use when you spec a drive, a parking pad or a slab base. It compacts into a firm surface under traffic.
Stone screenings bed pavers and flagstone and fill their joints, though crusher fines are the more usual reach for that work here. Natural Pea Gravel covers walkways, dog runs and drainage beds, and its rounded shape suits xeriscape planting.
Washed sand beds and levels flatwork. Garden soil fills raised beds, which is how many gardeners get around a caliche layer instead of digging through it.
Ground conditions across San Juan County
Base course and hardscape work runs from spring into late fall here. Winter freezes the ground, and wet shale clay in a March thaw will not compact.
Across the Colorado Plateau and San Juan Basin, the ground is sandstone and shale mesa country. Thin sandy soils sit over slickrock on the mesas, and deep expansive clays weathered from Mancos and Fruitland shale run across the basin floor.
Cemented caliche also shows up in the older terrace gravels above the San Juan and Animas rivers. That same shale clay swells wet and shrinks dry, which moves anything set straight on it.
Shale clay and slickrock shed water rather than take it, so monsoon runoff and spring snowmelt reach the washes fast and pond in low yards. A drainage layer and the right stone size matter as much as the base itself.
Flash flow down arroyos and slickrock washes cuts banks and gullies, and wind strips sand off unplanted ground. Rip rap armors those banks and culvert outlets.
Nights run below freezing from November into March, and the ground freezes and thaws repeatedly. Frost depth is about 24 inches around Farmington and the San Juan valley, and the city or county building official sets footing depth.
Choosing the right material
McKinley County sits in the same Northwest region and shares the same ground region, so the soil and drainage conditions there are the same as here. The material choices follow the same logic.
Rio Arriba County is North Central and its ground spans more than one zone, reaching into the Sangre de Cristo, Jemez and the northern high country as well as this basin. That means its ground can differ from the sandstone and shale mesa country and basin clay found here.
Where the ground changes, so does the base and drainage choice. A site on thin sandy soil over slickrock drains differently from one on expansive basin clay, and the stone size and drainage layer should follow the ground under it.
Order base course and landscape rock in San Juan County
New Mexico Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and topsoil across San Juan County, from Farmington and Bloomfield to Aztec, Kirtland, Shiprock and the surrounding communities. Order online by the ton or the yard, size the load with the calculator, and pick your delivery date at checkout.