Gravel, Stone and Soil for Menard County, IL
Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Menard County, IL to Petersburg, Athens, Greenview, Tallula, Oakford and Lincolns New Salem. Start with CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone that carries a driveway, a parking pad or a shed base here.
This is flat Grand Prairie ground with deep, dark prairie silt loam over dense clay. Water stands after heavy rain instead of running off, so what you put under a drive matters as much as what sits on top.
Materials Delivered in Menard County
CA-6 is the Illinois base material. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.
Order it for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.
Clean washed stone is the other half of the work. CA-7 and CA-11 are the 3/4 inch to 1 inch washed sizes for pipe bedding, drainage trenches, French drains and concrete flatwork.
CA-16 chips are the 3/8 inch size for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks.
Lime screenings are crushed limestone fines, the standard bedding layer under pavers and flagstone and a backfill around pipe. Torpedo sand is the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding, and mason sand is the finer clean sand for mortar, paver joints and sandboxes.
Delivery Across Menard County
You order online. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load.
Pick your delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on site in one pile.
Delivery covers Petersburg, Athens, Greenview, Tallula, Oakford and Lincolns New Salem, along with the rural roads between them. Bulk loads arrive as a single tipped pile, so have the spot clear before the truck reaches you.
Ground Conditions Across Menard County
Across the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, this is some of the flattest ground in the country. Beneath the dark prairie silt loam sits dense clay subsoil, and there is almost no natural fall.
Water stands rather than runs after heavy rain. That is why so much of the farmland around here is tile drained, and it is why a thin base course fails first in a wet spring.
Silt loam also erodes. Sheet erosion moves bare soil, runoff concentrates into gullies, and stream banks scour after heavy rain.
Rip rap armors the spots where water leaves a slope or a culvert outlet.
Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall. The ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through the winter, and frost heave shows up in gravel drives and shallow slabs each spring.
Choosing the Right Material
Cass County sits in the Illinois River valley and the sand areas, on deep wind-blown and river-laid sand with droughty sandy terraces. Menard County ground is silt loam over dense clay, so the two behave nothing alike.
A sandy terrace drains fast; clay here holds water, which puts more weight on a clean drainage layer under a base.
Sangamon County and Logan County share the Grand Prairie till plain ground of central and eastern Illinois. The soil, the clay subsoil and the flat fall are the same as here, so the base and drainage choice does not change between them.
Order Your Load for Menard County
Start with the calculator on the product page you need and settle your quantity in tons or yards. Order CA-6 for a base, washed stone for drainage, or topsoil and mulch for the yard.
Place the order online, choose your delivery date, and Illinois Rock Supply tips the load on site in Menard County.