Order CA-6 and Crushed Stone in Jersey County, IL
What do I order for a driveway, a drainage trench or a new shed pad in Jersey County? Illinois Rock Supply sells gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Jersey County, IL, and the answer starts with CA-6.
It is the dense graded crushed limestone that carries the fines.
Jersey County spans two different ground regions. The uplands around Jerseyville, Elsah, Fieldon and Dow sit on deep loess over older drift.
The Grafton side runs to sand left by the old meltwater floods. Each one asks something different of the material under your project.
Delivery across Jersey County
You order online. Choose the material, set the quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.
A dump truck then tips your load on site as one pile.
Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk material across Jersey County, including Jerseyville, Elsah, Grafton, Fieldon and Dow. Each product page has a calculator if you are unsure how much to order.
Bulk delivery is a full load of loose aggregate tipped where the truck can reach. Plan for the pile to land where you want it, because the driver tips it and moves on.
Materials delivered in Jersey County
Aggregate is easiest to sort by size, from the coarsest clean stone down to the fines. Each size does a different job.
CA-6 is the one to understand first. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.
It goes down as a base for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.
Above CA-6 in size sit the clean stones. CA-7 and 3/4" Crushed Stone are washed, so water moves through them instead of sitting.
Use them for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains.
Below that come the chips and the fines. CA-16 Chips bed permeable pavers and drain around tanks.
Lime Screenings bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe.
Sand and soil round out a project. Washed Sand is the coarse torpedo sand for concrete and leveling.
Mason Sand is finer and goes into brick and block mortar. Top Soil and Garden Soil handle lawns, raised beds and planting areas.
Ground conditions across Jersey County
Timing matters as much as material here. Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall, a little longer than upstate, and bottomland sites wait out spring high water on the Mississippi and Illinois.
On the loess uplands around Jerseyville, Elsah, Fieldon and Dow, the ground sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats. The bottomlands behind the levees drain slowly and flood.
In the sinkhole country, water disappears into the ground instead of running to a ditch.
That shapes what you put down. A base that stays saturated loses its strength, so a clean stone drainage layer under or beside the base matters where water collects.
On the Grafton side, the ground is deep wind-blown and river-laid sand from the meltwater floods that cut the Illinois valley. Sand takes water quickly and holds almost none, so the problem is a base that washes and settles rather than one that stays wet.
Erosion follows the same split. Loess gullies and rills on steep bluffs and ravines, slumping on cut slopes, and bank scour along the big rivers.
On bare sand, wind moves it and water ruts loose sandy drives.
Winters bring repeated freeze and thaw, and frost still lifts drives and walks each spring. The local building department sets footing depth.
Choosing the right material
Macoupin County sits on a different ground region: loess over old, weathered Illinoian drift with a tight claypan subsoil. That claypan holds water and drains slowly, so a base there has to deal with ground that stays wet.
Greene County and Madison County share Jersey County's ground region. The deep loess over older drift, the dissected bluffs and ravines, and the silty bottomland are the same story, so the material choices carry over.
Where the ground is tight and slow, a clean stone layer keeps water away from the base. Where the ground is sandy and droughty, the base needs enough fines to hold together and resist wash.
Match the size to the job. Riprap armors banks and outlets.
CA-7 and CA-11 drain and bed pipe. CA-16 chips bed pavers.
Lime screenings bed flagstone. CA-6 builds the base under all of it.
Order CA-6 and crushed stone for your Jersey County project
Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Jersey County, from Jerseyville and Elsah to Grafton, Fieldon and Dow. Choose your material, set the quantity by the ton or yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.
Order your CA-6, clean stone, sand or topsoil online and get it tipped on site.