Bulk Gravel Delivery to Fenton, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Fenton, IL, and the working season here is shorter than it is downstate. The spring thaw and fall rain decide when a truck can reach a site.

CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone this part of Illinois calls road base, is the starting point for most pads and drives.

Across the Northern Illinois till plains and Rock River country, the ground runs to tight till and loamy prairie soil over dolomite. Timing a delivery around the thaw is part of the job.

Ground and Conditions in Fenton

On flat ground with tight till under it, water has nowhere to go. A base course laid thin shows it first: ruts along the wheel paths, soft spots that swallow a truck tire, edges that break away after a freeze.

The ground here freezes and thaws more than once through the winter. That movement works on any unbound base that is not built to hold it, and it works on shallow footings the same way.

Frost depth is about 42 inches across the northern counties, and the local building department sets the figure for footings. That is a footing rule, not a target for a gravel base.

Drainage cuts the other way in places. Sand and gravel plains in this part of the state shed water almost too fast, so a compacted surface there needs enough fines to hold together.

Gully and sheet erosion shows up on steeper slopes and banks. Rip rap is the material for armoring those edges, and clean stone is the material for moving water away from a structure.

Materials for Fenton Projects

The base under pavers and flatwork is where a project here either holds or does not. CA-6 is the Illinois base material: dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

It compacts into a firm, tight surface for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Bedding sits on top of that base, and it is a different job with different material. Lime Screenings are crushed limestone fines, the standard bedding layer for pavers and flagstone in Illinois.

They bed the paver and fill the joints without the voids clean stone leaves behind.

Where water has to move, the fines have to come out. CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, used for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches, French drains and concrete flatwork.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone that goes alongside it for bedding, drainage and concrete work.

Permeable paver systems take a finer grade. CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch chips for permeable paver bedding, drainage around tanks and topping a compacted base.

Sand does its own work on flatwork. Washed Sand, called torpedo sand in Illinois, is the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding.

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

For fill and finish work, Fill Dirt raises grade before a CA-6 base course goes down, and Top Soil covers lawns, grading and bed prep. Illinois prairie topsoil is dark and silty, and yards here sell it screened.

Delivery to Fenton and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, and the calculator is the right place to size a load before checkout.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile on site. Plan where that pile lands before the truck arrives.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers to Fenton and to the rest of Whiteside County, including Sterling, Rock Falls, Morrison, Fulton and Erie.

Order Bulk Gravel for Your Fenton Project

Sizing comes before ordering. Open the product page for the material your project calls for, use the calculator to set your quantity in tons or yards, and choose a delivery date at checkout.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Fenton and Whiteside County. Place your order online when your measurements are ready.