Landscaping Material Delivered in Athens, IL

Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Athens, IL to driveways, yards and job sites across Menard County. CA-6, also called road base, is the crushed limestone with the fines left in that most local base work starts from.

It goes down under drives, parking pads, shed floors and trench backfill.

Delivery to Athens and the Surrounding Area

You order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you check out.

Pick your delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on site.

Delivery covers Athens and the rest of Menard County, including Petersburg, Greenview, Tallula, Oakford and Lincolns New Salem. The truck tips the load in one pile where it lands.

Plan the spot before the truck arrives, because nothing gets moved or spread after the drop.

Bulk loads run from a few tons for a bed refresh up to full truckloads for a driveway or a building pad. Ordering by the ton suits stone and sand.

Ordering by the yard suits soil, fill and mulch.

Materials for Athens Projects

Decorative rock carries a lot of the landscaping work here. Beds, borders, dry creek beds and ground cover all take rounded stone, and the size you pick sets the look.

River gravel, also called river rock, is the rounded decorative stone for beds and borders. Large river rock handles dry creek beds, downspout splash areas and heavier decorative work.

Natural Pea Gravel, sold as 3/8 inch washed gravel, suits walkways, play areas and fence post mix.

For a driveway, start with CA-6 as the base course and top it with driveway gravel or walkway gravel. CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, for bedding under pipe and drainage trenches.

CA-16 chips are the 3/8 inch limestone chips for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks.

Lime screenings bed pavers and flagstone. Torpedo sand, the local name for coarse washed sand, goes under concrete and leveling work, and mason sand is the finer clean sand for mortar and paver joints.

Ground and Conditions in Athens

Athens sits on the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois. The ground is flat to gently rolling, with deep dark prairie silt loams over dense clay subsoil.

Almost no natural fall means water stands rather than runs after heavy rain.

That flat, heavy ground is hard on an under-built base. A pad or drive placed on bare silt loam pumps and shifts once it takes water, because the clay below holds it.

A CA-6 base course gives the surface something that drains and stays put.

Bare silt loam also washes. Sheet erosion takes the fines off exposed ground, and yard runoff cuts gullies where it concentrates.

Beds edged in rock and ground covered with stone or mulch hold the soil in place.

Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall. The ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through the winter.

Frost heave shows up in gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring.

Order CA-6 and Decorative Stone for Athens

CA-6 is the base material for drives, pads and backfill around Athens, and the decorative stone goes on top or into the beds. Order online by the ton or yard, pick your delivery date, and Illinois Rock Supply brings it out.