Bulk Aggregates for Drainage in Marietta, MS

Mississippi Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Marietta, MS, and the ground here decides what you need. Across the Northeast Hills, Pontotoc Ridge and Flatwoods, some sites shed water fast and others hold it.

610 limestone is the local base material, and washed stone is what moves water away.

You order online, size the load, and a dump truck tips it on site.

Materials for Marietta Projects

Drainage work around a house or a drive starts with clean, washed stone. Water runs through it instead of sitting in it, which is the whole point on ground that stays soft.

#8 Crushed Stone is the fine washed size. It suits pipe bedding, tight drainage runs and paver joints.

#89 Crushed Stone is smaller again, for the tightest bedding and joints.

#57 Limestone is the workhorse washed size for French drains, foundation drains and downspout runs. #67 Stone does the same job one size down.

Drain Rock covers French drains, drywells and downspout runs where the ground holds water. #4 Crushed Stone is the coarse end, for trench bottoms and construction entrances.

For a compacting surface rather than a drainage layer, 610 limestone is the base. It builds driveways, parking pads, shed pads and patio sub-base.

Clay Gravel is pit gravel with enough clay and fines to bind, and it has long been the Mississippi drive and farm-road surface over soft ground.

Delivery to Marietta and the Surrounding Area

Mississippi Rock Supply delivers bulk material across Marietta and Prentiss County. Booneville, Baldwyn and New Site sit in the same county and are covered the same way.

You order online. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to help you size the load.

You pick your delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. From there it is your material to move and place where the job needs it.

Ground and Conditions in Marietta

Work in this part of Mississippi runs nearly year round. The ground most likely to be too wet to compact is the heavy clay belt, and that is the timing question worth thinking about before you set a delivery date.

Steep, narrow valleys shed water fast, while that clay belt drains very slowly and stays soft long after a rain. Which of the two a site sits on changes the whole approach.

Runoff cuts the steep slopes and the dissected valley walls, scours banks on the feeder streams, and washes out drives that cross a draw. A clean washed stone layer under a drive or at a downspout outlet gives that water somewhere to go.

The coldest corner of the state still sees short, shallow freezes by national standards. Mississippi leaves the frost line depth blank in the residential code table for each jurisdiction to fill in, and sets a minimum exterior footing depth of 12 inches.

Order Bulk Aggregate in Marietta

Mississippi Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, washed stone, sand and soil across Marietta and Prentiss County. If drainage is the job, start with the washed sizes; if you need a compacting surface, start with 610 limestone.

Order online when you are ready.