Black Dirt Delivery for Lakeland, MN

Minnesota Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Lakeland, MN, and the material this market builds on is Class 5. Class 5 is the Minnesota base course, a crushed gravel with the fines left in, and it goes under driveways, parking pads, shed floors and garage slabs.

Lakeland sits in Washington County, in the Twin Cities metro, where the ground changes inside a short drive. That makes the sub-base decision worth getting right before anything is placed on top.

Delivery to Lakeland and the Surrounding Area

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.

Choose a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load on your site in Lakeland. The truck tips it in one pile, so it pays to have the spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives.

Delivery covers Lakeland and the rest of Washington County, including Cottage Grove, Forest Lake, Stillwater, Hugo and Lake Elmo. If your job sits outside the city limits, the same order process applies.

Materials for Lakeland Projects

Raising grade and building pads is the work this page is built around. A pad starts with fill, and the fill has to be brought up before a base course goes down on it.

Fill Dirt is bulk fill for raising grade, backfilling and building up a pad.

It goes in first, under everything else.

Class 5 is the compacted base that follows the fill. It is the standard Minnesota base course, and it carries driveways, parking pads and road base.

Top Soil is black dirt, the Minnesota name for topsoil. It finishes lawns, sod beds and planting beds once grade is set and the base work is done.

Drainage Rock is a 1 1/2 inch clear rock used for French drains, footing drains, drywells and downspout runs. Clear means the fines are washed out, so water moves through it instead of sitting.

RipRap is coarse stone for shoreline, streambank, culvert outlet and slope armouring against ice, wave action and spring runoff.

Ground and Conditions in Lakeland

The Twin Cities metro holds several different grounds inside one short drive. Sandy ground north of the rivers takes water fast, while till through the western and northern suburbs drains slowly.

Across the built-up core, hard surfaces concentrate runoff, and river terraces and bluff faces move water quickly downhill. Erosion shows up as gully cutting on graded lots and building sites, and as streambank scour in creeks after heavy rain.

Under an under-built base, that water is the problem. A pad raised on fill and capped with a compacted Class 5 course keeps the surface above the wet ground and gives the load something to sit on.

The working season here is the longest in the state, 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, which affects hauling on county and state roads.

Winters bring repeated freeze-thaw. The Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets 3 feet 6 inches for its Zone II counties, and that figure is a footing depth set by the building official, not a base depth.

Questions About Material in Lakeland

What is the best base under pavers in Lakeland?

Class 5 is the compacted base course for a paver area, brought up over fill dirt where grade has to be raised. Granite fines, sold as screenings, bed the pavers on top of that base.

On the Twin Cities metro side, the ground under the base varies, so the fill and base work matters as much as the bedding layer.

Do you supply contractors working in Lakeland?

Yes. Minnesota Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate, sand, soil and mulch to job sites in Lakeland and across Washington County, including Cottage Grove, Forest Lake, Stillwater, Hugo and Lake Elmo.

Contractors order online by the ton or by the yard and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Order Class 5 and Fill for Your Lakeland Job

Class 5 is the base course this market builds on, and fill dirt is what gets a pad up to grade before it goes down. Minnesota Rock Supply delivers both to Lakeland and the surrounding Washington County area.

Order online by the ton or by the yard, pick your delivery date at checkout, and the truck will tip the load on site.