Monroe County, IL Gravel and Landscape Rock Delivery
Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Monroe County, IL. The ground here is deep loess over older drift, so a base course has to carry a load across silty soil that moves when it gets wet.
CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, is the base material for driveways, parking pads and building pads across the county.
Everything is ordered online by the ton or by the yard and arrives by dump truck. Waterloo, Columbia, Valmeyer and Fults are all inside the delivery area.
Materials Delivered in Monroe County
Start with the project. A driveway needs a compactable base, a drain needs clean washed stone, and a patio needs a bedding layer that will not hold water.
CA-6 is the base material for the county.
For a patio, lime screenings bed the pavers and CA-7 or CA-11 handles the drainage behind the wall. For a drain, clean washed stone lets water move; a fines-bearing material will not.
Decorative and garden work runs on 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel for walkways and play areas, River Gravel for beds and dry creek beds, and Shredded Mulch for tree rings and beds.
Ground Conditions Across Monroe County
Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, the ground is deep loess over older Illinoian drift on rolling uplands, with dissected bluffs and steep ravines. Limestone with sinkhole karst runs through the Monroe and Randolph sinkhole plain, and thick silty alluvium fills the American Bottom.
Loess sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats. On a slope, that means runoff concentrates and a base course can wash out at the edges.
In the flats, water sits in the silty soil and a base that was not built to carry a load will pump and rut.
In the sinkhole country, water disappears into the ground instead of running to a ditch. That changes where a drainage layer needs to go, because the water is not leaving the way it would on a graded lot.
Gully and rill erosion is a real force in loess on steep bluffs and ravines, and cut slopes slump. Riprap armors banks, culvert outlets and pond edges where runoff is concentrated.
Bank scour along the Mississippi, Illinois and Kaskaskia moves material, and collapse around sinkholes follows concentrated runoff.
Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall, a little longer than upstate. Bottomland sites wait out spring high water.
Cold winters bring freeze and thaw, and frost still lifts drives and walks each spring.
Delivery Across Monroe County
Order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you need to size a load.
You choose a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site in one pile.
Delivery covers Waterloo, Columbia, Valmeyer and Fults, along with the rest of Monroe County. Rural addresses and long driveways are part of the normal work here, so give the delivery point some thought before the truck arrives.
Bulk delivery means the material comes loose, not bagged. Plan for where the pile lands, because a tipped load stays where it is dropped and is moved from there by hand or machine.
Choosing the Right Material
Monroe County and St. Clair County share the same ground region: deep loess over older Illinoian drift, dissected bluffs and ravines, sinkhole karst, and silty alluvium on the American Bottom.
The ground is the same, so the base and drainage choices are the same.
Randolph County sits in the same ground region as well, with the sinkhole plain running through both counties. Nothing about the soil changes the material choice across that line.
What changes the choice is the project, not the county. A compactable base such as CA-6 carries a drive or a pad.
Clean washed stone such as CA-7, CA-11 or CA-16 moves water and beds pipe. Lime screenings bed pavers and flagstone.
Torpedo sand mixes into concrete, and mason sand beds brick and block mortar.
On steep ground, riprap protects a slope that would otherwise erode. On flat ground over silt, drainage stone gives water somewhere to go.
Order CA-6 and Washed Stone for Your Monroe County Job
CA-6 is the base material for Monroe County. Pair it with CA-7, CA-11 or CA-16 for drainage and bedding, and with lime screenings or torpedo sand for the finish work.
Order online by the ton or yard and pick your delivery date at checkout.