Large River Rock, Stone and Soil Delivery in South Jordan, UT

Utah Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in South Jordan, UT to your driveway, pad or slope. Untreated base course sits under most of that work.

Water off the Wasatch benches moves fast and finds the low spots. Coarse stone is what answers it, and that is where this page starts.

Materials for South Jordan Projects

Runoff off a bench slope or a swale does not wait. Coarse, clean stone gives it somewhere to go and holds the bank while it moves.

RipRap armors wash banks, culvert outlets, irrigation ditch banks and cut slopes. It is the stone you set against flash runoff where the ground would otherwise shed away.

Large River Rock, sold as 4 to 6 inch cobble, lines dry creek beds and swales. It is heavy enough that fast water rolls off it instead of pushing it downstream.

Railroad Ballast is the coarsest option for hard standing and severe drainage. Use it where a track bed or a heavy pad has to stay clean under water.

Below that size, Drain Rock, also called washed rock or clean rock, handles French drains, footing drains, window wells and downspout runs. Buy it by inch size, such as 3/4 inch washed rock.

3/4" Crushed Stone (3/4 inch clean) suits drainage beds, trench backfill and construction entrances. Crusher Fines, also called chat, bed pavers and flagstone and surface paths.

Under structures, untreated base course, or UTBC, is the compacting layer.

Delivery to South Jordan and the Surrounding Area

Order online and Utah Rock Supply delivers bulk material to your site in South Jordan, in Salt Lake County.

Choose the quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you need help sizing the load. Pick your delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Delivery covers South Jordan and the surrounding area, including West Jordan, Sandy, Herriman, West Valley City and Salt Lake City.

Ground and Conditions in South Jordan

Base, driveway and paver work here runs from early spring into late autumn. Frozen ground stops compaction in midwinter, and July and August are dry enough that a base needs added water to compact properly.

Across the Wasatch Front and the Bonneville benches, Lake Bonneville sorted these valleys. Sand and gravel sit in the benches and the deltas at the canyon mouths, while finer silt and clay lie out on the valley floor.

That split decides how water behaves. Bench gravel drains fast while valley-floor silt and clay hold it, and spring snowmelt and summer cloudbursts arrive faster than the ground can take them.

Soils here are alkaline and low in organic matter, and new lots are commonly stripped to clay subsoil before anything is built. Imported screened topsoil is the usual start for a lawn.

Debris flows and flash flooding out of the canyons, snowmelt cutting the bench slopes and bare dry ground shedding soil in a cloudburst all point the same way. Armor the slopes and banks with coarse stone, and plan drainage before you build.

Gravel drives and the edges of flatwork heave every spring after repeated freeze-thaw. Frost depth in Salt Lake City and North Salt Lake is 30 inches, but each jurisdiction sets its own figure, so confirm it with the local building official.

Order Bulk Stone and Soil for South Jordan

Utah Rock Supply delivers rip rap, cobble, drainage stone, untreated base course, sand and topsoil across South Jordan and the surrounding Salt Lake County area. Choose your material and quantity, pick a delivery date at checkout, and a truck brings it to your site.