Landscaping Material Delivered in Bethalto, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Bethalto, IL, and the first thing to sort out is how much you need. Each product page carries a calculator, so size the load before you pick the material.

CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone this market calls road base, is the base course under most drives and pads here. The rest of the load is whatever the project calls for.

Delivery to Bethalto and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load on your site in one pile.

Bethalto sits in Madison County, and trucks run out to Granite City, Edwardsville, Alton, Collinsville and Godfrey as well. If your site is anywhere in that part of the county, the order goes through the same way.

Bulk loads are heavy, so it helps to have the drop spot clear before the truck arrives. The driver tips the pile and leaves it there.

Materials for Bethalto Projects

Decorative rock carries a lot of the work around here, and it is a different purchase from a base course. Beds, dry creek beds and ground cover take rounded stone, not crushed limestone.

For a dry creek bed or a downspout splash area, River Gravel is the rounded material that reads as a creek bottom. Large River Rock is the bigger rounded stone for heavier decorative work and the same kind of bed.

Beds and borders take River Gravel or 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel. Natural Pea Gravel also works on walkways and around fence posts, and it is rounded, so it stays loose underfoot.

Under all of that, a driveway or parking pad still wants CA-6. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

Drainage is its own category. CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, for bedding under pipe, French drains and drainage trenches.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, does the same kind of work at 3/4 inch.

For a patio, Lime Screenings is the bedding layer under pavers and flagstone. Washed Sand, which yards here call torpedo sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete and leveling.

Ground and Conditions in Bethalto

This part of Illinois sits on deep loess over older drift, on rolling uplands cut by steep ravines. Loess sheds water fast on a slope and holds it in the flats, and that split decides how a base behaves.

On a slope, water moves through the silt quickly and finds the edge of an under-built base. In the flats, the same water sits.

Either way, a drive or pad that was built thin shows it first at the edges.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Gullies and rills open up in loess on steep ground, and cut slopes slump.

Where runoff concentrates, it takes the fine material with it and leaves the coarse stone behind.

Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall here, a little longer than upstate. Freeze and thaw still lift drives and walks each spring, so the base course is the part worth getting right.

Order CA-6 and Decorative Stone for Your Bethalto Project

CA-6 is the base material this market builds on, and it pairs with the washed stone, screenings and decorative rock a Bethalto project needs. Size the load on the product page, pick your date at checkout, and Illinois Rock Supply will deliver it to your site.