Bulk Aggregate Delivery Across Santa Fe County, NM

New Mexico Rock Supply sells gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Santa Fe County, NM. Base course is the material this market knows by name, and it is what a driveway, a parking pad or a shed base starts from.

Santa Fe County ground runs from Stone Screenings and stony mountain soil up in the Sangre de Cristo to sandy clay alluvium with caliche in the basins below. That mix decides what a load has to do once it lands.

Delivery across Santa Fe County

You order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.

Pick a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on site as one pile. Santa Fe, Edgewood, Glorieta, Santa Cruz, Lamy, Stanley and Cerrillos are all covered.

Materials delivered in Santa Fe County

Lead with the job. A driveway, a patio, a drain and a garden bed each pull a different material off the truck.

Base course is the one to get right first.

Section 303 allows crushed stone, crushed or screened gravel, caliche, sand and recycled asphalt or concrete pavement, and sets two gradation bands, Type I and Type II, both passing a 1 inch sieve. City specifications follow the same definition.

Ask for base course by name and you get the graded, compactable material a drive or pad is built on.

For a patio or a garden path, crusher fines are the walkable surface in New Mexico. They are screened crushed rock fines sold by color, and they pack to a firm crust.

Stone screenings bed pavers and fill joints, though yards here often reach for crusher fines instead.

For drainage, drain rock handles French drains, dry wells and foundation drains. RipRap armors arroyo banks, culvert outlets and slope faces against flash flow.

For planting, topsoil and garden soil build beds over caliche. Fill dirt raises grade and backfills before a base course lift goes down.

Ground conditions across Santa Fe County

This county spans two ground regions. In the Sangre de Cristo, Jemez and northern high country around Santa Fe, Glorieta, Santa Cruz and Lamy, you get Stone Screenings and stony mountain soils on the slopes.

Soft volcanic tuff and pumice sit on the Pajarito Plateau, and sandy clay alluvium with caliche fills the Espanola, Santa Fe and Taos basins below.

In the Central mountains and closed basins around Edgewood and Stanley, soils are stony limestone and granite, with alkaline silt and clay and playa ground in the closed Estancia Basin. Caliche is common on the basin floors.

Caliche is the hard layer a crew has to break through, and it is also a genuine base course constituent. An under-built base over it will not hold, because water that gets through the sand above stops at the caliche and sits.

Water arrives fast here. Snowmelt off the high country comes in spring, then monsoon cloudbursts run off steep slopes and shallow soil.

Water moves faster than Stone Screenings and tuff will take it once the surface has crusted, and the acequia ditches carry the overflow. In a closed basin there is nowhere for water to go, so playas fill and stay wet for weeks.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Steep slope runoff, arroyo and acequia bank scour after storms, and severe post fire runoff off burn scars in the Jemez, the Sangre de Cristo and the Santa Fe watershed.

In the mountains a storm runs off rock and thin soil within minutes.

The working season is short, roughly late spring through October. Frozen ground stops compaction all winter and the high valleys thaw last.

Frost depth runs about 24 inches around Santa Fe, and the local building official sets footing depth.

Choosing the right material

Bernalillo County and Sandoval County both span the Middle Rio Grande valley and rift, and Sandoval also reaches into the Sangre de Cristo, Jemez and northern high country. Where that ground matches Santa Fe County, the base and drainage choice is the same.

Torrance County sits entirely in the Central mountains and closed basins, the same ground region Santa Fe County shares around Edgewood and Stanley. Stony limestone and granite soils, alkaline silt and clay with playa ground, and caliche on the basin floors.

The ground is the same, so the material logic is the same.

Match the material to the job. Base course for a drive, pad or slab base.

Crusher fines for a path or patio surface. Drain rock and rip rap where water concentrates.

Topsoil and garden soil where you are planting over caliche.

Order base course and aggregate in Santa Fe County

Base course is the material this county builds on. Add the material you need to your order, pick your quantity by the ton or yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout.

New Mexico Rock Supply will tip it on site across Santa Fe County.