Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Godfrey, IL

Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Godfrey, IL to contractors and homeowners working on the same short list of jobs: drives, pads, drainage and beds. CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone this part of Illinois calls road base, is the starting point for most of them.

So is the ground it goes on.

Materials for Godfrey Projects

Base and driveway surfacing comes first because everything else sits on it. CA-6, also called CA6 or 3/4 dense grade, is crushed limestone with the fines left in, and it compacts into a firm surface for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Order it by the ton or the yard, and size the load with the calculator on the product page.

For a finished drive surface, Driveway Gravel goes over a compacted base, and Walkway Gravel gives paths and garden walks a finer, walkable surface. Crusher Run is the same idea as CA-6 under its secondary name, crushed stone with the fines still in it.

Washed stone is the other half of the work. CA-7 and CA-11 are the clean, no-fines sizes for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches, French drains and concrete flatwork.

CA-7 and 3/4" Crushed Stone both run 3/4 inch to 1 inch clean, and CA-16 chips are the 3/8 inch size for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks.

Sand and soil round out a project. Torpedo sand is the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding, and mason sand is the finer clean sand for brick and block mortar, paver joints and sandboxes.

Screened topsoil handles lawns, grading and bed prep, and garden soil fills raised beds and vegetable plots.

Ground and Conditions in Godfrey

Start with where the water goes, because that decides what the ground under a drive or pad has to do. Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, loess sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats.

On rolling uplands and dissected bluffs, a slope that stays wet at the bottom is telling you the water is not leaving.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Gullies and rills open up in loess on steep bluffs and ravines, cut slopes slump, and runoff that concentrates in one place keeps cutting.

A base course that spreads and carries water off a slope does more for a drive than extra stone piled on top of it.

Work here runs from the spring thaw into late fall, a little longer than upstate, so grading and base work have a wide window. Frost still lifts drives and walks each spring.

Frost depth in this region runs about 36 to 40 inches, and the local building department sets the figure that applies to your job.

Delivery to Godfrey and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives by dump truck and tips in one pile at the address you give at checkout. Have the drop spot clear and reachable, and know that the truck cannot place, spread or split the load.

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers across Madison County, including Godfrey, Granite City, Edwardsville, Alton, Collinsville and Glen Carbon. If your site is on a slope or behind a gate, walk the route before the truck arrives so the pile lands somewhere you can work from.

Order Base, Stone and Soil for Your Godfrey Project

Illinois Rock Supply supplies CA-6 and driveway stone for drives and pads, washed stone for drainage and bedding, sand for concrete and mortar, and topsoil, garden soil and mulch for the ground around a build. Order online by the ton or the yard and a truck will tip it on site.