Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Alhambra, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Alhambra, IL, and the working season here runs from the spring thaw into late fall. That gives you a longer window than upstate yards get.

CA-6, also called road base, is the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in. It is the base material for drives, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill in this part of Madison County.

Materials for Alhambra Projects

Base and driveway surfacing is where a project here starts, and CA-6 is the material that does that work. It is crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it knits into a firm surface under a drive, a parking pad or a shed base.

CA-6 is also what a trench gets backfilled with.

For the surface layer, driveway gravel tops a compacted base, and walkway gravel gives paths and garden walks a finer, walkable finish. Crusher Run is the secondary name for the same fines-bearing stone.

Washed stone carries no fines, so it drains instead of packing. CA-7 is the 1 inch clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean stone for bedding and concrete flatwork.

Smaller clean sizes finish tighter work. CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch chips for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks.

Lime Screenings are the crushed limestone fines that bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe.

Sand and soil round out a site. Washed Sand, which yards here call torpedo sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete and leveling.

Mason Sand is the finer clean sand for mortar, paver joints and sandboxes.

For grade and planting, Top Soil is screened Illinois prairie topsoil for lawns and bed prep, and Garden Soil fills raised beds and vegetable plots. Fill Dirt raises grade before a CA-6 base course goes down.

Decorative stone covers the visible work. 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is rounded washed gravel for walkways and play areas.

River Gravel and Large River Rock handle beds, borders and dry creek beds. RipRap is heavy broken stone for bank protection, culvert outlets and slope armoring, specified locally as gradations RR 3 through RR 7.

Ground and Conditions in Alhambra

Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, the ground sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats. Deep loess sits over older drift on rolling uplands, and the silty alluvium in the bottomlands drains slowly.

That split decides how a base behaves. On a slope, runoff arrives quickly and a fines-bearing material like CA-6 needs to be shaped so water leaves rather than pools.

In a flat, water sits in the soil under the stone.

Where water has nowhere to go, a clean washed stone such as CA-7 or CA-11 gives it a path through the material instead of into it. Lime screenings and chips bed pavers, but they hold moisture and belong where drainage is already handled.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Loess gullies and rills on steep ground, slumping on cut slopes, and bank scour where runoff concentrates.

RipRap armors those edges, and clean stone at a culvert outlet keeps the discharge from cutting back into the soil.

Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall, a little longer than upstate. Bottomland sites wait out spring high water.

Freeze and thaw still lift drives and walks each spring, so a base that drains is worth the attention.

Delivery to Alhambra and the Surrounding Area

You order online and a dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load.

Pick your delivery date at checkout.

Have the drop spot clear before the truck arrives. A bulk load needs room for the truck to reach the pile location and turn around, and the driver tips it where the truck can safely stop.

Nothing gets spread or placed.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers throughout Madison County, including Granite City, Edwardsville, Alton, Collinsville and Godfrey. Alhambra sits in Madison County, and the same bulk delivery applies across the county line.

Questions About Ordering in Alhambra

Do you supply contractors working in Alhambra?

Yes. Contractors order the same way a homeowner does: online, by the ton or the yard, with a delivery date chosen at checkout.

CA-6 for base and backfill, CA-7 and CA-11 for bedding and drainage, lime screenings for paver work and torpedo sand for concrete are all available for delivery to job sites in Alhambra and across Madison County.

Do you deliver CA-6 to Alhambra, IL?

Yes. CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, is delivered in bulk to Alhambra and the surrounding Madison County area.

Order it online by the ton or the yard, size the load with the calculator on the product page, and choose your delivery date at checkout. The truck tips the load on site.

Order Bulk Material for Your Alhambra Project

Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6 and driveway stone for drives, pads and shed bases, washed stone for drainage and bedding, sand and screenings for paver and concrete work, and topsoil, fill and decorative rock for the rest of the site. Order online by the ton or the yard and choose a delivery date at checkout.