Railroad Ballast, Stone and Soil Delivery in Lakewood, WA

Washington Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Lakewood, WA, and the first job on any order is sizing the load. Each product page has a calculator, so you can set your quantity by the ton or by the yard before you check out.

Start with 5/8 minus if you are surfacing a drive or a parking pad. It is crushed rock with the fines left in, so it packs hard and sheds water instead of soaking it up.

Materials for Lakewood Projects

Coarse stone does the heavy work on slope, swale and bank protection around here. Rounded and washed stone moves water; minus products lock up and hold a surface.

The size you pick follows the job.

Coarse stone for slope and bank work

Riprap is the big end of the range, used for shoreline, streambank, culvert outfall and cut-slope protection.

RipRap is what armours a bank that winter water would otherwise cut back.

Large round rock, sold as 2 to 8 inch round, suits swale and ditch armour, bank toes and culvert outfalls where a smaller stone would be carried off. Large River Rock is rounded, so it sheds flow rather than locking together.

Railroad ballast is the angular, open-graded rock for rail spurs, yard track and heavy equipment pads. Say it in full: in Washington.

Railroad Ballast is a different product entirely.

Drainage and base sizes

Drain rock, also called 7/8 clean, is washed with no fines, so it keeps its voids where water sits on dense ground. Drain Rock goes into footing drains, French drains and infiltration trenches.

1 1/4 minus, or CSBC, is the structural course under a drive, parking area or slab. It has a larger top size and fewer fines than 5/8 minus, so it carries load and stays workable on soft wet ground.

1 1/4 Minus sits below the top course.

For the surface itself, 5/8 Minus, the local crushed surfacing top course, is the Washington default. It packs hard under a drive, a shed slab or a shop pad.

Delivery to Lakewood and the Surrounding Area

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

The driver does not spread it or take instruction on placement.

Washington Rock Supply delivers across Lakewood and the rest of Pierce County, including Tacoma, Puyallup, Graham, University Place and Spanaway. Bulk delivery is the whole of it: no pickup, no counter, no yard to visit.

Have the pile location clear before the truck arrives, with room to tip and a surface that will hold the weight. If your ground is soft, the truck needs a firm approach to reach the spot at all.

Ground and Conditions in Lakewood

This part of the Puget Sound lowland sits on glacial ground: a dense till cap, its lower part hard enough that crews call it hardpan, over outwash sand and then silt and clay. Rain soaks the loose upper soil, reaches the till and stops, so perched water sits close to the surface all winter.

That is why drainage matters more than depth here. Water has to be taken sideways to daylight, which is what footing drains and washed drain rock do.

A base that was firm in August can rut in February, because saturation softens it rather than frost.

The wet season runs October through April. Under the state stormwater manual for western Washington, exposed soil must be stabilized within two days in that window against seven days in summer.

Base, paving and paver work gets scheduled for the dry months, and winter work needs the grade kept covered.

Order Gravel and Aggregate Delivery in Lakewood

Washington Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, rock, sand, topsoil and mulch across Lakewood and Pierce County. Size your load with the calculator, choose your date at checkout, and the truck brings it to your site.