Railroad Ballast, Stone and Soil Delivery in Arlington, WA

Washington Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Arlington, WA, sold by the ton and tipped at your site. Each product page carries a calculator, so you can size the load before you order.

Start with 5/8 minus if you are surfacing a drive or a parking pad. In this part of the state the ground is glacial till capped hard, and water sits on it all winter, so what you put down has to shed that water rather than hold it.

Materials for Arlington Projects

Slope, swale and bank work around Arlington calls for coarse stone. The bigger the stone, the more it resists moving water, and rounded stone behaves differently from crushed stone on a bank.

RipRap is the heavy end of that range, used for shoreline, streambank, culvert outfall and cut-slope protection.

Large River Rock arms swales, ditch lines, bank toes and culvert outfalls where a smaller stone would be carried off in a winter storm. It is rounded stone, so it shifts and settles rather than locking into a rigid mass.

Washington River Rock suits dry creek beds, downspout splash pads, planting beds and rain garden armour. It is the smaller rounded option for the same kind of water-handling work.

For the drainage layer under all of it, Drain Rock is washed with no fines, so it keeps its voids where perched water sits on the till. Footing drains, French drains and infiltration trenches all rely on that open structure.

Where you need a surface that packs instead of drains, 5/8 Minus is the Washington default surfacing course. The crusher fines stay in, so it compacts hard under a drive, a parking pad or a shed slab.

Delivery to Arlington and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load in one pile at your site.

Arlington sits in Snohomish County, and delivery covers the city and the surrounding area. That includes Everett, Marysville, Edmonds, Lynnwood and Lake Stevens.

Bulk loads are heavy and the truck needs room to reach the spot you have in mind. Have the drop area clear and reachable before the truck arrives.

Ground and Conditions in Arlington

Plan the work around the wet season, which runs October through April. Under the state stormwater manual for western Washington, exposed soil has to be stabilized within two days in that window, against seven days in summer.

That timing pushes base, paving and paver work into the dry months. Winter work means keeping the grade covered.

The ground here is glacial till laid down by the Vashon ice sheet, with its lower part hard enough that crews call it hardpan. Below that sits advance outwash sand, then the silt and clay of the Lawton beds.

Rain soaks the loose upper soil, reaches the dense till and stops. The water table then sits close to the surface all winter instead of draining away.

Anything built on till needs that water taken sideways to daylight. That is why footing drains and washed drain rock do so much of the work on a Puget Sound lowland site.

The same perched water is what puts the bluffs of this region on the landslide maps, and it undercuts cut slopes and fill on a smaller scale. Where the outwash sand meets the clay below it, winter rain collects and the slope gives.

Winters here are mild and wet, so the ground seldom freezes deep. It is saturation rather than frost that softens a base, and a drive that was firm in August can rut in February.

Order Gravel and Aggregate Delivery in Arlington

Washington Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Arlington and the rest of Snohomish County. Size your load on the product page, pick a date at checkout, and the truck brings it to your site.

Order online when you are ready.