CA-7 and Bulk Aggregates for El Paso, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in El Paso, IL, and the surrounding part of Woodford County. CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, is the base material most ground work here starts from.

It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and garage floors and trench backfill. On the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, that base course sits on deep, dark prairie silt loam.

Materials for El Paso Projects

Water is the reason most of this ground gets worked. The plain is flat, the clay subsoil beneath it is dense, and fall is close to nothing, so water stands instead of running.

Washed stone is how you move it along.

Clean stone has no fines, so nothing fills the gaps between the particles and water passes straight through. That is what makes it the right material for French drains, drywells and downspout runs.

CA-7 is the 1 inch washed clean stone. It beds pipe, fills drainage trenches and sits under concrete flatwork.

3/4" Crushed Stone is CA-11, the 3/4 inch clean washed stone Illinois yards sell alongside CA-7 for bedding, drainage and concrete work.

CA-16 Chips is the small 3/8 inch chip. It beds permeable pavers, drains around tanks and tops a compacted base.

Fines-bearing material does a different job. CA-6 is the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, and those fines are what let it tighten up into a firm base for a drive, a pad or a backfill.

Lime Screenings are the crushed limestone fines used to bed pavers and flagstone and to backfill around pipe. They are the standard bedding layer in Illinois.

For sand, Washed Sand is the coarse washed sand Illinois yards call torpedo sand, used for concrete, leveling and bedding.

Delivery to El Paso and the Surrounding Area

You order online. Quantities are by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to help you size the load.

You pick your delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the material in one pile at the site. That covers El Paso and the rest of Woodford County, including Eureka, Metamora, Roanoke, Minonk and Washburn.

Have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives. Once the load is tipped, moving it is your work, so it helps to know where the pile should sit.

Ground and Conditions in El Paso

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.

That shapes timing more than anything else. A wet spring pushes work back because saturated silt loam will not compact, and a frozen yard will not take a truck or a plate.

Cold winters with repeated freeze and thaw bring frost heave to gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring. Frost depth runs about 36 inches through most of central and eastern Illinois, rising to 40 or 42 inches toward the northern edge, and the local building department sets it.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Bare silt loam sheets off in the rain, runoff concentrates into gullies where field and yard water collects, and stream banks scour after heavy rain.

Clean stone at the low spots and at downspout outlets gives that water somewhere to go instead of across the surface.

Order Aggregate Delivery in El Paso

Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, washed stone, sand, topsoil and mulch across El Paso and Woodford County. Order online by the ton or by the yard, size the load with the calculator, and pick your delivery date at checkout.