Bulk Gravel Delivery to Dover, DE

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Dover, DE online and Delaware Rock Supply tips it on your site. Pick your material, pick a quantity by the ton or the yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout.

Start with GABC for anything that has to compact and hold. It is the Delaware base material.

Ground and Conditions in Dover

Central Coastal Plain ground here is deep sand and silt. On the farmland uplands you hit Greenwich loam and similar silt-capped loams.

Along the rivers and out toward Delaware Bay the ground turns soft and organic.

A thin base fails fast on that ground. The silt cap holds water, the sand below lets it move, and a paver bed laid shallow starts to pump and settle.

The county is flat with a high water table and very little fall to the bay. Much of it drains through tax ditches, the landowner-maintained channels DNREC oversees.

Standing water after heavy rain is the usual problem, not fast runoff. Plan the base to shed water sideways rather than count on it draining away.

Work runs through most of the year here. Saturated ground in late winter and after summer downpours is the usual hold-up, not frost.

Winters are mild with repeated shallow freeze and thaw. Gravel drives and paver joints still move by late winter.

Kent County sets footings shallower than New Castle does, at a frost depth of 24 inches.

Materials for Dover Projects

Bedding under pavers and flatwork is the layer that decides how the finished surface looks in three years. Get it right and the joints stay tight and the slabs stay level.

GABC is the compacted base for drives, parking pads and shed bases. Delaware writes it into local design standards as Type B Graded Aggregate Base Course, and it is the layer that carries everything above it.

See GABC.

Crusher run is the everyday trade name for the same work. It binds and compacts into lanes, drives and base layers, and it is what many crews mean when they ask for a base stone.

See Crusher Run.

Stone dust, also called screenings or Delaware No. 10 stone, is the bedding itself.

It beds pavers, flagstone and brick and fills the voids in a compacted base. See Stone Dust.

Concrete sand is washed sand and bedding sand. It beds under pavers and slabs, levels a surface and mixes into concrete.

See Concrete Sand.

#8 crushed stone, Delaware No. 8 stone locally, works as concrete aggregate, in paver joints and as a fine topping over a compacted base.

See #8 Crushed Stone.

#57 stone is clean stone for drainage beds, underdrains and drive surfacing.

Rounded material like Natural Pea Gravel does not lock together, so keep it to walkways, patios and play areas. See #57 Stone and 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel.

Delivery to Dover and the Surrounding Area

Decide first whether you are ordering by the ton or by the yard. Then size the load with the calculator on each product page, so the quantity matches the area you are covering.

Order online, pick your delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Dover sits in Kent County, and delivery reaches Smyrna, Clayton, Harrington, Felton and Frederica.

Order Dover Gravel and Aggregate Online

Size the load with the calculator, choose tons or yards, and set your delivery date at checkout. Delaware Rock Supply delivers bulk GABC, stone, sand and topsoil across Dover and Kent County.

Place your order online and a truck tips it on your site.