CA-16 Chips, Stone and Soil Delivery in Fieldon, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Fieldon, IL, and the ground here shapes what you order. This is loess country, deep silty soil that sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats.

That split decides your base depth. A pad on a flat that stays wet needs more than one on a slope that drains.

CA-6, also called road base, is the dense graded crushed limestone that starts most drive and pad work around here.

Materials for Fieldon Projects

Water is the thing to plan around, and washed stone is how you move it. Clean stone has no fines, so it stays open and lets water pass instead of trapping it.

For a French drain, a drywell or a downspout run, the size depends on the volume you are moving and the pipe you are bedding.

• CA-7, also called #57 stone or 1 inch clean stone, is washed with no fines. Use it for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains.
• 3/4" Crushed Stone, sold here as CA-11 or sewer stone, is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone that goes alongside CA-7 for bedding and concrete work.
• CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch limestone chips. They bed permeable pavers, drain around tanks and top a compacted base.
• #89 Crushed Stone is the smallest washed stone, for tight bedding and paver joints.
• Drain Rock covers French drains, drywells, foundation drains and downspout runs.

Coarser clean stone matters where the water comes fast. CA-7 and CA-11 handle most residential drainage, while larger clean sizes suit heavy trench bottoms and construction entrances.

Where you need a surface rather than a drain, the choice shifts. CA-6 compacts into a base for drives, parking pads, shed and garage floors and trench backfill, and Driveway Gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted base.

Finer material has its own jobs. Lime Screenings, the crushed limestone fines Illinois yards call screenings, bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe.

Washed Sand, or torpedo sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding. Mason Sand is the finer clean sand for brick and block mortar and paver joints.

Delivery to Fieldon 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 commit.

Pick a delivery date at checkout, then a dump truck tips the material on your site in one pile. Delivery covers Fieldon and the rest of Jersey County, including Jerseyville, Elsah, Grafton and Dow.

Sites in this part of Illinois often sit on ground that stays soft well into spring, and the working season runs from the thaw into late fall. Choosing your date with that in mind keeps the truck on ground it can handle.

Ground and Conditions in Fieldon

Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, the soil is deep loess over older drift, and loess behaves differently on a slope than it does on a flat.

On slopes it sheds water fast, which is why gully and rill erosion shows up on steep ground and cut banks slump after a wet stretch. On flats the same soil holds water, and that is where a base loses its strength.

The practical answer is a compacted base of the right depth plus a clean stone drainage layer where water collects. CA-6 gives you the compacted base; CA-7, CA-11 or CA-16 chips give you the open layer that lets water move.

Winter brings freeze and thaw, and frost still lifts drives and walks each spring. Frost depth figures are set by the local building department, so check with yours before you plan anything structural.

Ordering in the drier part of the season avoids working ground that is still saturated.

Order CA-6, Washed Stone and Topsoil in Fieldon

Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand, topsoil and mulch across Fieldon and Jersey County, ordered online by the ton or the yard and tipped on your site. Choose your material, size the load and pick a delivery date at checkout to get your project moving.