Fill and Base Material Delivered in Highland, IL

Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Highland, IL to sites across Madison County. This is loess country: silty soil that sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats.

That ground moves, and an under-built base moves with it. CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, is the base material that answers it.

Delivery to Highland and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick your quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you need to size the load before checkout.

Choose a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on your site.

Delivery covers Highland and the rest of Madison County, including Granite City, Edwardsville, Alton, Collinsville and Godfrey. The truck tips the load in one pile where it lands.

Plan your access and your pile spot before the truck arrives.

Materials for Highland Projects

Fill and sub-base come first on most sites here. Loess ground is silty and uneven, so raising grade before a base course goes down is the step that keeps everything above it flat.

Fill Dirt builds up grade under a pad, a drive or a new lawn. It goes down before the base course, not instead of it.

For a building pad or a garage slab, that fill layer is what brings the site up to level.

CA-6 is the Illinois base material: dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in. It compacts into a tight surface for driveways, parking pads, shed bases and trench backfill.

Driveway Gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted base. Top Soil finishes lawns and bed prep; Illinois prairie topsoil is dark and silty, and yards sell it screened.

For drainage and concrete work, clean washed stone is the other half of the order. CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains.

3/4" Crushed Stone is the CA-11 size for the same work. Lime Screenings bed pavers and flagstone.

Ground and Conditions in Highland

Start with the soil. Deep loess sits over older drift on rolling uplands here, and loess sheds water fast on a slope and holds it in the flats.

A base built thin over that ground pumps, shifts and ruts.

Water is the second half of it. Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, runoff concentrates in gullies and ravines and cuts into steep ground.

On a flat site the same water sits. A clean stone drainage layer under the base gives it somewhere to go.

Frost still lifts drives and walks each spring in this part of the state. The local building department sets the footing depth, and that figure is theirs to give.

Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall, a little longer than upstate.

Questions About Material in Highland

What is the best base under pavers in Highland?

CA-6 gives you the compacted structural base, and lime screenings give you the bedding layer the pavers sit in. CA-6 is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it tightens up under a plate.

Screenings are the fine crushed limestone that levels out under the units. Order the two as separate materials.

Do you supply contractors working in Highland?

Yes. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate to job sites in Highland and across Madison County, including Granite City, Edwardsville, Alton, Collinsville and Godfrey.

Contractors order online by the ton or by the yard, pick a delivery date at checkout, and the truck tips the load on site.

Order CA-6 and Base Material in Highland

CA-6 is the base material this ground calls for, and Illinois Rock Supply delivers it across Highland and Madison County. Pair it with fill dirt when you need to raise grade first, or with CA-7 when the job needs clean drainage stone.

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