Bulk Aggregate Delivery Across Moultrie County, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Moultrie County, IL for contractors and homeowners alike. Some buyers here are building a driveway from scratch, and some are topping up one that has settled.

CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, is the base material this part of Illinois is built on.

The county sits on the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, flat ground over deep, dark prairie silt loams. That ground holds water after a heavy rain, and it shapes which stone you want under a drive or a slab.

Materials Delivered in Moultrie County

Base material comes first, because everything else sits on it. CA-6 is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Where you need stone that drains instead of packing, the clean washed sizes take over. CA-7 and CA-11 are the 3/4 inch to 1 inch clean stones, and CA-16 chips are the 3/8 inch size for tighter work.

None of them carry fines, so water moves through them.

Sand splits into two jobs. Torpedo sand is the coarse washed sand for concrete and leveling, and Mason Sand is the finer clean sand for brick and block mortar, paver joints, sandboxes and volleyball courts.

Soil and mulch round out a delivery. Top Soil is screened prairie topsoil for lawns, grading and bed prep, and Garden Soil fills raised beds and vegetable plots.

Shredded Mulch holds moisture in beds and tree rings through an Illinois summer.

Decorative stone is its own category. 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is rounded washed gravel for walkways and play areas, and River Gravel and Large River Rock cover beds, borders and dry creek beds.

For heavy water work, RipRap is the broken stone for bank protection, culvert outlets and pond edges.

Delivery Across Moultrie County

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load in one pile at the address you give.

The driver does not spread or place material, so the pile lands where the truck can reach.

Each product page has a calculator if you want to size a load before ordering. Delivery covers Sullivan, Bethany, Lovington, Dalton City and Gays, along with the rest of the county.

Have the drop spot clear before the truck arrives. A bulk load needs room for the truck to back in and tip, and a surface firm enough to carry it.

In a wet spring, ground that has not dried out will not hold a loaded truck.

Ground Conditions Across Moultrie County

Across the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, this is some of the flattest ground in the country, and the subsoil beneath it is dense clay. There is almost no natural fall, so water stands rather than runs after heavy rain and snowmelt.

That standing water is the reason a base course matters here. CA-6 packs down into a firm layer that sheds the load above it, while CA-7, CA-11 and CA-16 let water pass through instead of trapping it.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Bare silt loam washes in sheets, and runoff that concentrates cuts gullies through yards and fields.

Where water leaves a slope or a bank, riprap armors it against scour.

Timing matters too. Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall, because the ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through winter.

Frost heave shows up in gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring. Frost depth runs about 36 inches through most of central and eastern Illinois, and the local building department sets the figure that applies to your job.

Choosing the Right Material

Ground next door is not always the same ground. Shelby County sits on the southern till plain and claypan country, where loess covers old, weathered Illinoian drift and the subsoil is tight claypan.

That claypan is slow, hard ground, so drainage matters more there than it does on the prairie soils here.

Macon County and Coles County share the Grand Prairie till plain with Moultrie County, so the ground itself is the same flat till under dark prairie silt loams. The base and drainage choices carry over unchanged.

Start with what the surface has to do. A drive or pad that carries weight wants CA-6, a compacted base with the fines left in.

Anything that has to move water wants clean washed stone, so CA-7, CA-11 or CA-16 depending on the size the work calls for.

Bedding is its own choice. Lime Screenings bed pavers and flagstone, torpedo sand levels and beds concrete, and Mason Sand handles mortar and joints.

For beds and borders, Natural Pea Gravel, river gravel and large river rock give you rounded stone in three sizes.

Order Aggregate for Your Moultrie County Project

Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6 base, washed stone, sand, topsoil and decorative rock across Moultrie County for driveways, pads, drainage, bedding and planting work. Choose your material, set the quantity by the ton or the yard, and pick a delivery date online.

Your order arrives as a tipped pile, ready for the work ahead.