Rip Rap, Stone and Soil Delivery in Colfax, IL

If you are pricing gravel and aggregate delivery in Colfax, IL, the first question is usually which stone actually stops the water. Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, washed stone, sand and soil to jobs around McLean County.

This is flat Grand Prairie ground with dense clay under it. Water stands rather than runs, so the answer is usually coarse, clean stone that lets it move.

Materials for Colfax Projects

Slope, swale and bank protection starts with size. The heavier the stone, the more it holds when runoff concentrates and the ground has almost no fall to shed it.

Coarse stone for banks and outlets

RipRap is the heavy broken stone for bank protection, culvert outlets, pond edges and slope armoring.

It is the material for ground where moving water has to be slowed down.

#4 Crushed Stone is large clean stone for trench bottoms and heavy drainage.

It works as a coarse layer where water needs open space to travel.

Washed stone for drainage and bedding

CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, for bedding under pipe and drainage trenches. 3/4" Crushed Stone is the CA-11 size Illinois yards sell alongside it for the same work.

CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch chips, smaller clean stone for tight bedding and drainage around tanks. Drain Rock covers French drains, drywells and downspout runs.

Fines-bearing base and bedding

CA-6 is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in. It is the Illinois base material for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Lime Screenings are crushed limestone fines for paver and flagstone bedding and backfill around pipe. They are the standard bedding layer in Illinois.

Delivery to Colfax and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator if you need to size the load.

A dump truck then tips it on site.

Delivery covers Colfax and the rest of McLean County, including Bloomington, Normal, Le Roy, Heyworth and Hudson. If your job sits on a farm lane or an unimproved track, have the drop spot clear before the date you chose.

Ground and Conditions in Colfax

Base, driveway and paver work here runs from the spring thaw into late fall. The ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through winter, so timing a delivery matters as much as the material.

This is some of the flattest ground in the country, with dense clay subsoil beneath it and almost no natural fall. That is why so much farmland around here is tile drained.

Water stands rather than runs after heavy rain.

Erosion on the Grand Prairie till plain shows up as sheet erosion off bare silt loam and as gullying where field and yard runoff concentrates. Stream bank scour follows heavy rain.

Coarse stone at the outlets is what slows it.

Cold winters bring repeated freeze and thaw, and frost heave shows up in gravel drives and shallow slabs each spring. Frost depth runs about 36 inches through most of central and eastern Illinois, and the local building department sets the figure that applies to your permit.

Questions Colfax Buyers Ask

What stone should I use for drainage in Colfax?

Use clean washed stone so water moves through it instead of sitting. CA-7 is the 3/4 to 1 inch washed stone for bedding under pipe and drainage trenches, and CA-11 is the same size sold alongside it.

For smaller work and tight bedding, CA-16 Chips fit. If you are armoring a bank or a culvert outlet, RipRap is the heavy option.

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

Pick your delivery date at checkout and have the drop spot clear and reachable before then. The truck tips the load in one pile, so the surface where it lands needs to be open and the approach passable for a heavy vehicle.

Move anything you do not want buried, and keep the pile area free of parked cars and equipment.

Order Stone and Soil for Your Colfax Project

Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, washed stone, rip rap, sand and soil across Colfax and McLean County, from Bloomington and Normal to Le Roy, Heyworth and Hudson. Choose your material, size the load and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Your stone can be on the ground at your Colfax site.