Bulk Gravel and Stone Delivery in Dakota County, MN
Order gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Dakota County, MN from Minnesota Rock Supply. Order online by the ton or the yard and a dump truck tips the load on site.
Start with Class 5, the standard Minnesota base course. It goes under drives, parking pads, shed and garage bases and road base across the Twin Cities metro.
Materials delivered in Dakota County
Class 5 is the base material Minnesota is built on.
It carries the fines that let it bind and compact, which is why it takes a driveway, a parking pad or a road base. Order Class 5 for any of those.
Class 2 is the surfacing class in the same spec, a tighter 3/4 inch crushed aggregate with fines. Yards sell it as Class 2 granite, buff limestone or red limestone.
Use Driveway Gravel to top an existing drive or finish over a compacted base.
Granite fines bed pavers, flagstone and patios, and they make a compacted garden path. Minnesota granite fines come from the Crushed Stone quarried in the St.
Cloud belt.
Order Granite Fines for bedding work.
Clear rock is Minnesota for washed stone with the fines taken out, as against Class 5, which keeps them. It drains.
Use 3/4 Clear Rock for drainage beds, drive surfacing, construction entrances and trench backfill.
Clean washed rock also goes under basement slabs and around footing drains. That includes the gas-permeable layer beneath the passive radon system Minnesota requires in new homes.
Order Drainage Rock, usually a 1 1/2 inch clear rock here, for French drains, drywells, downspout runs and sewer bedding.
Riprap armours a shoreline, streambank, culvert outlet or slope against ice, wave and spring runoff.
Order RipRap for that work.
Black dirt is what Minnesota calls topsoil, and it is usually bought screened or pulverized.
Order Top Soil for lawns, sod beds and planting beds, and Washed Sand for bedding and levelling under slabs and pavers.
Delivery across Dakota County
Quantities are ordered 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 load on site in one pile.
Delivery covers Lakeville, Burnsville, Inver Grove Heights, Rosemount, Farmington, Hastings, South St. Paul, Hampton, Randolph and St.
Paul.
Order online whenever you are ready and the truck brings the material to the address you give at checkout.
Ground conditions across Dakota County
Ground across the Twin Cities metro changes inside a short drive. That matters for how a base behaves under a drive, a walk or a slab.
Sandy ground takes water fast. Till drains slowly and holds it, and hard surfaces concentrate runoff instead of letting it soak away.
Where a clay loam subgrade holds water under a thin base, cold winters and repeated freeze-thaw heave drives, walks and slabs.
Frost depth is 3 feet 6 inches (42 inches), the depth the Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets for its Zone II counties. The building official sets footing depth.
Bluff and ravine erosion above the rivers, gully cutting on graded lots and building sites, and streambank scour in urban creeks after heavy rain are the erosion patterns to plan around.
Riprap and clear rock are the materials that answer slope and drainage problems.
The working season runs from the spring thaw into late autumn. Spring load limits go up on Metro zone roads in early March and come off in mid-April.
Plan heavy deliveries around that window.
Choosing the right material
Hennepin County shares the Twin Cities metro ground with Dakota County. The same mix of sand plain, till, river terraces and bluff country applies, so the base and drainage choices carry over.
Rice County sits in Southeast Minnesota, on gray, calcareous Des Moines lobe till that is loamy to clayey and carries shale. That till drains slowly, so drainage rock and clear rock matter more there.
Goodhue County spans more than one zone, with Driftless bluff and karst country alongside prairie till. Karst ground moves water down through the rock, which changes what a drainage layer has to do.
Match the material to the ground you are building on, not to the county line.
Order bulk gravel and stone in Dakota County
Work out your quantity on the calculator on each product page, then order by the ton or the yard. Class 5, clear rock, granite fines, black dirt and riprap all deliver across Dakota County.
Place your order online and a dump truck tips the load at your address.