Fill and Base Material Delivered in Freeport, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Freeport, IL, with CA-6 as the base material most ground here gets built on. CA-6, also called road base, is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

It goes under driveways, parking pads and shed floors, and it backfills trenches. Freeport sits in Stephenson County, where the ground is thin over rock and water moves fast.

Delivery to Freeport and the Surrounding Area

You order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you check out.

Choose a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the material on site in one pile.

Deliveries reach Freeport and the rest of Stephenson County, including Lena, Orangeville, Pearl City, Kent and Dakota. Steep drives and hillside pads are the sites worth thinking through before you order.

Materials for Freeport Projects

Raising grade and building pads come first on a lot with thin soil over rock. Fill dirt brings a low spot up to level.

CA-6 then goes on top as the sub-base that carries the load.

For a driveway, start with fill if the grade is low, then cap it with CA-6. Driveway Gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted base.

For a patio or paver walk, Lime Screenings bed the pavers and CA-16 Chips work as bedding under permeable pavers. Both sit on a compacted CA-6 base.

For drainage, CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, used for French drains, drain fields and bedding under pipe. 3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, does the same work at 3/4 inch.

For bank protection and culvert outlets, RipRap armors slopes and pond edges. Top Soil finishes lawns and beds once the grade is right.

Ground and Conditions in Freeport

Across the Driftless and old-drift northwest, the ground runs to thin soil over dolomite and limestone, with steep valley sides where rock sits close to the surface. Water moves fast on that ground.

Heavy rain runs off the ridges before it can soak in, and springs and seeps come out of the rock. An under-built base on ground like this fails at the edges first.

Gully erosion in the loess on steep slopes, rock fall and slumping on cut banks, and scour in narrow valley streams all follow from the same conditions. Grade and drainage decide how a pad holds up.

Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall. A wet spring is the hard window, because loess on a steep drive turns greasy and will not compact.

Frost depth in northern Illinois is about 42 inches, and the local building department sets the figure that applies to a footing. Sharp freeze and thaw works hardest on thin soils over rock and on cut slopes.

Order CA-6 and Fill for Your Freeport Project

CA-6 is the base material this ground is built on, and fill dirt brings a low lot up to grade before it goes down. Illinois Rock Supply delivers both across Freeport and Stephenson County.

Order online by the ton or the yard and pick your delivery date at checkout.