Riprap and Bulk Aggregates for Florence, OR

Oregon Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Florence, OR, and on the coast the first order is usually stone that stands up to water. Winter rain comes off steep ground and low ground stays saturated for months.

Start with 3/4 minus for anything that has to compact, then size up to coarse rock for banks, swales and outlets. The two do different jobs.

Materials for Florence Projects

Water is the driver on the coast, so coarse stone does the heavy work on slopes, swales and banks. Riprap armors what winter runoff hits hardest.

Riprap protects stream banks, culvert outlets, pond edges and cut slopes. Oregon riprap is specified by class, from Class 50 up to Class 2000, so the class tells you what size stone the job calls for.

Railroad Ballast is coarse angular rock for track beds, heavy hard standing and severe drainage. Use it where you want a large open stone that water moves through.

#4 Crushed Stone is large open stone for construction entrances, trench bottoms and heavy drainage. Oregon yards more often sell this size as 1 1/2 clean.

Drain Rock is washed and open, so water passes instead of sitting. It suits French drains, curtain drains, footing drains, drywells and downspout runs.

3/4" Crushed Stone is angular rock with the fines screened out. It goes in drainage trenches, behind retaining walls, on construction entrances and into soft wet ground.

Below that, 3/4 Minus is the standard Oregon base under driveways, parking pads, shop floors and shed bases. It is crushed rock graded 3/4 inch down to fines, so it compacts and locks up.

Delivery to Florence and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick a delivery date at checkout. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load.

A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Florence sits in Lane County, and delivery covers the city and the surrounding area, including Eugene, Springfield, Cottage Grove, Junction City and Creswell.

Ground and Conditions in Florence

Across the Oregon Coast and Coast Range, 60 to 120 inches of rain a year falls mostly between November and March. Steep slopes and low ground stay saturated for months.

That shapes the working season. Base, drive and paver work runs from late spring into early autumn.

From October into April sites stay wet and bare ground has to be covered quickly.

Ground here runs to basalt headlands, uplifted marine sandstone and siltstone under the hills, dune sand and soft bluff material along the shore, and deep weathered soil on the forested slopes. Winter storm waves, storm surge, slides and slumps in the bluffs, and flooding of low ground all move material.

Plan the order around the calendar rather than the forecast. Get the compacted base and the drainage stone in while the ground is workable.

The Pacific keeps winters mild and freezes short, so it is months of saturation rather than frost that moves material here. Any footing depth is set by the city or county building official.

Order Riprap and Aggregate for Florence

Oregon Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand, topsoil and aggregates across Florence and the surrounding Lane County area. Order online, size the load on the product page, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Start with the coarse stone for your banks and swales, then add the 3/4 minus for everything that has to compact.