What is the difference between crushed stone and Natural Pea Gravel?

Crushed stone has angular faces from breaking rock, so CA-6 compacts into a firm base and CA-7 and CA-11 drain as clean washed stone. Natural Pea Gravel is rounded 3/8 inch washed gravel, which stays loose and works for walkways, play areas and drainage. They are not interchangeable as a base.

Should I order material by the ton or by the yard?

Both are offered, and either works. The ton is a weight and the yard is a volume, and the choice usually comes down to how you are used to ordering. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size the load before you check out.

Livingston County, IL Aggregate and Rock Delivery

Q: Do you deliver to Livingston County?

Yes. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Livingston County, including Pontiac, Dwight, Fairbury, Chatsworth, Forrest, Flanagan, Odell, Cullom, Cornell, Saunemin, Long Point, Emington, Strawn and Ancona. You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone and aggregate across Livingston County, IL. Base, driveway and paver work here runs from the spring thaw into late fall, and the ground is slow to dry in a wet spring.

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CA-6, also called road base, is the Illinois base material for drives, parking pads and shed bases. Order it online and a dump truck tips the load on site.

Materials delivered in Livingston County

Article 1004.01 sets the coarse aggregate gradations CA 1 through CA 20, so dense graded base is CA-6, clean bedding stone is CA-7 or CA-11, and 3/8 inch chips are CA-16.

CA-6 is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in. It builds driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill, and it is the base layer under most hard surfaces here.

Riprap covers bank protection, culvert outlets and pond edges. RipRap is the heavy broken stone for slope armoring and moving water.

Decorative and garden work runs on 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel for walkways and play areas, and River Gravel for beds and dry creek beds. Mason Sand handles brick and block mortar and paver joints.

Delivery across Livingston County

Ordering happens online. You choose the quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you need to size the load.

Pick a delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile at the delivery point. Nothing is placed or spread, so have that spot cleared and reachable before the truck arrives.

Delivery covers Pontiac, Dwight, Fairbury, Chatsworth, Forrest, Flanagan, Odell, Cullom, Cornell, Saunemin, Long Point, Emington, Strawn and Ancona. Addresses in and around those places are served.

Ground conditions across Livingston County

Livingston County sits on the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois. This is some of the flattest ground in the country, with dense clay subsoil beneath it and almost no natural fall.

Water stands rather than runs after heavy rain, so drainage is a real design question on any base or pad here. A clean washed stone layer under a surface gives that water somewhere to go.

Sheet erosion strips bare silt loam, and yard runoff concentrates into gullies where it leaves a downspout or a drive edge. Riprap and clean stone slow that movement at outlets and along banks.

Frost heave shows up in gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring across central and eastern Illinois. The local building department sets footing depth, so check with them before any foundation work.

Choosing the right material

LaSalle County spans more than one ground region, taking in the Northern Illinois till plains and Rock River country along with the Illinois River valley and the sand areas. Sand and valley ground behave differently from Livingston County silt loam, so drainage there can move faster.

Kankakee County ground is the Chicago lake plain and the northeastern moraines, with heavy silt and clay near Lake Michigan and dolomite bedrock shallow in places. That shallow rock changes how deep a base can go.

Grundy County shares the Chicago lake plain and the northeastern moraines and also reaches the Illinois River valley and the sand areas. Its ground is not the same silty till plain as Livingston County.

Order gravel and stone for your Livingston County project

Illinois Rock Supply supplies CA-6, clean washed stone, sand, soil, decorative gravel and riprap for driveways, parking pads, drainage, bedding and grading in Livingston County. Order online by the ton or by the yard, pick your delivery date, and a truck tips the load on site.

Gravel, Stone and Soil for Livingston County, IL