What is the difference between crushed stone and Natural Pea Gravel?

Crushed stone is mechanically broken rock with angular faces, so it locks together and compacts. Natural Pea Gravel, also called pea stone, is rounded and smooth, so it stays loose underfoot. Use crushed sizes such as #2 stone or item 4 for bases and drainage. Use Natural Pea Gravel for walkways, play areas and light drainage where a soft surface is wanted.

Should I order material by the ton or by the yard?

Both work. Order by the ton when weight is the easier measure for stone and aggregate, and by the yard when volume suits your job better, such as soil, sand or mulch. Size the load with the calculator so the quantity matches your area, then pick a delivery date at checkout.

Which stone is best for drainage in Erie County?

Match the size to the job. Use #2 stone or #57 stone for French drains, septic beds and pipe bedding, and #4 crushed stone for heavy drainage and trench bottoms. Around flat, slow-draining clay, a coarse open-graded stone keeps melt and rain moving instead of pooling. Drain Rock covers downspout runs and drywells.

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What does a driveway need under it, and what does a French drain need around it? For most jobs around Buffalo and the rest of Erie County, the answer starts with item 4. New York Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Erie County, NY, ordered online and dropped where you need it.

The ground here is flat to gently rolling silt, clay and sand left by old glacial lakes, with drumlin hills and stony till rising toward the southern hills. Item 4 compacts over that ground and holds a drive through a lake-effect winter.

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Ordering gets easier when you think in sizes, coarsest to finest. Start with the big armor stone, work down through drainage sizes, then finish with sand, soil and mulch.

Item 4 is the standard New York name for compacting subbase stone. It goes under driveways, parking pads, patio and shed bases. Item 4 is the trade name New York yards use for that kind of stone.

For drainage, #2 stone and #1 stone cover most pipe bedding and septic work, while #57 stone and #67 stone handle French drains and concrete aggregate. Natural Pea Gravel, also called pea stone, suits walkways, play areas and light drainage, and river rock finishes decorative beds and dry creek beds.

Ground Conditions Across Erie County

Timing starts with the working season. Base and driveway work runs from spring thaw into late fall. Frozen, snow-covered ground stops compaction through the winter, and clay ground can stay soft into spring. Plan a delivery for the dry stretch when the ground will take a truck and a plate compactor.

Lake-effect snow off Lake Erie and Lake Ontario builds a heavy snowpack in belts south and east of the lakes. Spring melt and heavy rain leave water standing on flat, slow-draining clay. That standing water is why a drainage layer matters as much as the base itself.

Cold, snowy winters bring frequent freezing and thawing, and the lake-bed silt and clay soils are prone to frost heave and turn soft when they thaw. Frost depth usually runs about 4 feet down for footings, and the local building department sets the exact depth. Have that settled before you set a base.

Waves, ice and high water wear bluffs and beaches along Lake Erie, the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, and creeks scour their banks during snowmelt and heavy rain. RipRap works on that shoreline and bank armoring.

Delivery Across Erie County

You order online, pick a quantity by the ton or the yard, and size the load with the calculator before checkout. Then you choose a delivery date at checkout that fits your schedule. A dump truck brings the material to the site and drops it where you point.

Coverage runs across the county, including Buffalo, Grand Island, Depew, Tonawanda, Elma, Lancaster, Hamburg, Boston, East Aurora, Marilla, Springville, Collins, Clarence Center and Eden. Whether the drop is a city lot or a long rural driveway, you pick the date and the truck arrives with your load.

Choosing the Right Material

Ground changes as you move away from the lake, and so does the right order. Erie County sits in the Lake Erie and Lake Ontario lowlands and snow belts, so the local mix is silt, clay and sand with drumlin hills and stony till toward the south.

Chautauqua County spans more than one ground zone, covering both the Southern Tier, Catskills and Finger Lakes hills and the Lake Erie and Lake Ontario lowlands and snow belts. Where it shares the lowlands, the base choice looks much like Erie County. In its hillier ground, drainage and slope work take more of the order.

Cattaraugus County sits in the Southern Tier, Catskills and Finger Lakes hills. Stony, silty glacial till over layered shale and sandstone covers most of the hills, and many upland soils have a dense subsoil layer that holds water near the surface. Valley floors carry gravel, sand and silt. That dense layer means drainage stone matters more than it does on Erie County's flatter clay.

Wyoming County shares that same hill ground, with the same dense subsoil and the same valley gravel, sand and silt. Base and drainage choices there follow the slopes rather than the lake plain.

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New York Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone, sand, soil and mulch across Erie County, from Buffalo and Tonawanda to Hamburg, East Aurora, Springville and the towns between. Choose your material, size the load with the calculator, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Place your order online and the truck brings it to your site.

Bulk Aggregate Delivery Across Erie County, NY