Bulk Gravel and Stone Delivery in San Miguel County, NM
New Mexico Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in San Miguel County, NM, from Las Vegas and Pecos to Ribera, San Jose and Trementina. Base course is the material that carries drives, parking pads and slab bases here, and it is what New Mexico calls road base.
Around it you can order crusher fines, crushed rock, drain rock, rip rap, river rock, sand, topsoil and fill dirt, all delivered in bulk.
Materials Delivered in San Miguel County
Base course is the crushed or screened material that goes down first under a drive, a parking pad or a slab.
Section 303 allows crushed stone, crushed or screened gravel, caliche, sand and recycled asphalt or concrete pavement. It sets two gradation bands, Type I and Type II, both passing a 1 inch sieve.
City specifications follow the same definition. Base course is also the layer that takes the water a thin surface cannot shed, so it belongs under any drive that has to hold through a wet season.
Natural Pea Gravel, mason sand and washed sand round out the list. Mason sand is the plaster and masonry sand used for block, brick, adobe and stucco work, and washed sand beds and levels flatwork.
Choosing the Right Material
Torrance County sits in the Central region over stony limestone and granite soils, alkaline silt and clay with playa ground, and cinder and lava soil. Caliche is common on its basin floors, so drainage there depends on how the ground below the base behaves.
Quay and Guadalupe counties share San Miguel County's Eastern High Plains ground: deep sandy and loamy plains soils over the Ogallala with a cemented caliche caprock, blow sand, and stony basalt and shale in the Canadian River breaks.
Where the ground is the same, the choice is the same. Base course goes down under the drive or pad, and open stone such as 3/4 crushed rock or drain rock carries water away from the edge.
Where caliche caprock sits close to the surface, water ponds above it. There, a drainage layer matters as much as the base itself, and crusher fines suit a walkable surface better than a loose stone.
Ground Conditions Across San Miguel County
San Miguel County spans two ground regions. In the Sangre de Cristo and northern high country around Las Vegas, Pecos, Ribera and San Jose, Stone Screenings and stony mountain soils sit on the slopes, with sandy clay alluvium and caliche in the basins below.
On the Eastern High Plains side around Garita, Solano and Trementina, deep sandy and loamy soils lie over the Ogallala, with a cemented caliche caprock under much of the Llano Estacado and stony basalt and shale in the Canadian River breaks.
A thin base shows its failure fast on both. Water arrives faster than crusted ground will take it, so the surface ruts and the edges break away.
Snowmelt off the high country comes first in spring, then monsoon cloudbursts run off steep slopes and shallow soil. Steep slope runoff and arroyo bank scour follow storms, and post fire runoff off burn scars adds to it.
On the plains side, wind erosion comes first, then storm runoff cuts the caprock escarpment and playa margins scour after heavy rain. Rip rap and large river rock armor banks and outlets against that flow.
The working season is short in the high country, roughly late spring through October, because frozen ground stops compaction all winter. The plains run spring through late fall, with winter wind and frozen ground stopping compaction.
Freezing is hardest in the northern high country, and repeated freeze and thaw works gravel drives loose every spring.
Delivery Across San Miguel County
You order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator to help size the load before you check out.
A dump truck tips the load in one pile at the delivery address. Delivery covers Las Vegas, Pecos, Ribera, San Jose, Garita, Montezuma, Rociada, Sapello, Solano, Tererro and Trementina.
Order Base Course and Gravel for San Miguel County
Size the load with the calculator on any product page, then order base course, crusher fines, drain rock or topsoil by the ton or yard. New Mexico Rock Supply delivers bulk material across San Miguel County and a dump truck tips it on site.
Place your order online when you are ready.