Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Arbon, ID
Idaho Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Arbon, ID, and times the drop around the working season here. Base and paver work runs from the spring thaw into the fall, and the higher valleys get a shorter window than the valley floors do.
Road mix is the base most ground work in this part of Power County starts from. Order it by the ton or the yard and a dump truck tips it on your site.
Materials for Arbon Projects
Grading and bed prep carry a lot of the work around Arbon, and that starts with soil. The native ground across the Southeast Idaho valleys and the Bear River country is loess and silt loam over limestone, sandstone and older sedimentary rock, so it is thin and stony in plenty of spots.
Top Soil is screened and clean, and it goes down over that ground for lawns and bed prep. Garden Soil is the mix for raised beds and planting areas where the native ground is too thin, too stony or too alkaline to plant into.
Fill Dirt is structural fill. It brings a low spot up and backfills before a base course goes on top.
For the base itself, 3/4 Road Mix is crushed base with the fines left in, so it locks up under a roller. It sits under driveways, parking pads, shop floors and shed slabs.
Contractors here also call the same load 3/4 minus, and on public works plans it is called out as crushed aggregate by type.
Below that base, Pit Run is unprocessed gravel straight from the pit, rock and fines mixed at whatever sizes the pit gives. It works as sub base, as structural fill, and for filling holes and raising grade.
It is not a finished surface.
For drainage, Drain Rock is clean angular rock for french drains, foundation drains, drywells, septic drainfields and downspout runs. RipRap armors creek banks, culvert outlets, canal banks, pond edges and cut slopes against snowmelt and cloudburst runoff.
Sand and decorative rock round out a build. Washed Sand beds pavers and slabs and handles concrete work, while Mason Sand suits brick and block work and paver joints.
Snake River Rock fills decorative beds, borders and dry creek beds.
Ground and Conditions in Arbon
Water is the thing to plan around here. It comes off the ranges onto the valley floors faster than silt loam can take it, and alluvial fans at the canyon mouths carry sudden flows across building ground.
That matters for where a drive or a pad drains. Clean stone like drain rock moves water, while a fines-bearing base like road mix locks up and holds.
Keep the two jobs separate and the ground behaves.
Snowmelt and thunderstorm runoff cut canyon roads and fans, and bank scour shows up on the rivers. Gullying happens on grazed and cropped loess slopes.
Riprap on a culvert outlet or a cut slope takes that energy instead of your ground.
Winters in the valleys are cold with hard freezing and frequent swings either side of freezing, and the spring thaw heaves roads and drives. Frost depth is set by the local building official, so footing depth is a question for that office rather than a number to guess at.
Delivery to Arbon and the Surrounding Area
Bulk material arrives on a dump truck that tips the load in one pile on your site. Have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck gets there, and keep vehicles and equipment out of the way.
You order online. Pick your quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load.
Choose a delivery date at checkout.
Arbon sits in Power County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including American Falls and Rockland.
Order Gravel, Stone and Soil for Your Arbon Project
Idaho Rock Supply delivers road mix, drain rock, sand, topsoil and fill for driveways, drainage, grading and landscaping in Arbon and across Power County. Order online by the ton or the yard, choose your delivery date, and a truck brings it to your site.