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

Crushed stone is angular rock that has been broken and screened to a set size, such as 610 limestone or #57 limestone. Natural Pea Gravel is rounded chert washed out of Mississippi pit gravels, not crushed rock. Angular stone locks together and packs, which suits a base or a drainage bed. Rounded Natural Pea Gravel stays loose, so it suits walkways, play areas and decorative beds.

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

Both are accepted. Order by the ton or by the yard, whichever suits how you are planning the job. Each product page has a calculator to size the load, so you can settle on a quantity before checkout. Pick a delivery date there, and a dump truck tips the load on site.

Which stone is best for drainage in Tunica County?

Delta ground is flat and sits on tight clay that takes water slowly, so clean, open graded stone is the right choice. #57 limestone and #67 stone work for French drains, foundation drains and concrete aggregate. #8 and #89 crushed stone handle fine drainage, pipe bedding and paver joints. Drain rock covers drywells and downspout runs.

Tunica County 610 Limestone and Gravel Delivery, MS

Mississippi Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Tunica County, MS. The base material here is 610 limestone, also called 610 or crushed limestone base.

It is a compacting crushed stone base for drives, parking pads, shed pads and patio sub-base.

Tunica County sits in the Delta, on deep alluvial silt, silt loam and heavy clay. Sand and gravel lie tens of feet below the surface, so a drive is built up from hauled material rather than dug into native ground.

Ground Conditions Across Tunica County

Delta ground is flat, with almost no fall, over tight clay subsoil that takes water slowly. Water stands rather than runs off.

A drive here needs a built-up, crowned base rather than a deeper one.

Backswamp ground is gray to black clay that swells wet and cracks dry. That shrink and swell, not frost, is what moves a Delta drive out of shape.

Mississippi leaves the frost line depth blank for each jurisdiction to fill in and sets a minimum exterior footing depth of 12 inches.

Work runs nearly year round in this part of the state. The real limits are saturated ground in late winter and early spring, plus heavy rain.

Time a delivery around those windows.

Erosion comes from sheet flow across flat fields, bank caving on the rivers and bayous, and floodwater cutting at drive edges and culvert outlets. Riprap and large river rock protect those edges.

Materials Delivered in Tunica County

610 limestone is the local base course.

610, Size 3/4 inch and Down and Size No. 825 B.

Section 304 pays for the work as Size Crushed Stone Base. Order it for driveways, parking pads, building pads and patio sub-base.

Clay gravel, also called pit gravel, is pit-run gravel with enough clay and fines to bind and pack. It is a long-standing Mississippi drive and farm-road material where a graded, compacting surface is wanted over soft ground.

Drain rock handles French drains, foundation drains, drywells and downspout runs on ground that holds water. Natural Pea Gravel is rounded chert washed out of the pit gravels, not crushed stone, and it suits walkways, play areas and decorative beds.

River rock and large river rock cover decorative beds, borders, dry creek beds and heavier bank work.

Masonry sand, sold locally as mason sand, serves brick and block work, paver joints and play sand. Topsoil and garden soil build a workable layer over tight clay or washed-out ground.

Shredded mulch holds moisture in beds and keeps soil in place on slopes through heavy summer rain.

Choosing the Right Material

Coahoma County shares the Delta ground with Tunica County. The soil is the same deep alluvial silt, silt loam and heavy clay, with sand and gravel buried well below the surface.

The base and drainage choice is the same on both sides of the line.

Tate County is different. Its ground is wind-laid loess, often more than fifty feet thick on the bluff line, weathering down to brown loam.

Loess is silty and easy to dig, and it will stand in a vertical cut and then fail without warning once it is wet.

That difference changes the base choice. On loess, a cut face needs protection and water needs to be kept out of the slope.

On Delta clay, the work is building grade up and getting water off a flat surface.

Panola County spans more than one ground region, covering both the Loess Bluffs and Brown Loam and the Delta. Material choice there depends on which ground the work sits on.

For a compacting base, 610 limestone and clay gravel both pack. For clean drainage, use #57, #67, #8 or #89 stone, or drain rock where a larger open stone is wanted.

For surface and decorative work, Natural Pea Gravel and river rock are rounded, so they do not lock together or hold a slope.

Delivery Across Tunica County

Mississippi Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate across Tunica County, including Tunica, Dundee and Robinsonville. Order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard.

Each product page has a calculator to size the load. Pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the material on site in one pile.

Order Bulk Gravel and Stone in Tunica County

Mississippi Rock Supply delivers 610 limestone, clay gravel, drainage stone, sand, topsoil and fill across Tunica County, including Tunica, Dundee and Robinsonville. Order online, size the load by the ton or the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck tips the material on site in one pile. Start your order when you are ready.

Bulk Aggregate Delivery Across Tunica County, MS