Bulk Aggregates for Pathways in Mounds, IL

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Mounds, IL by the ton or the yard from Illinois Rock Supply. Pick your material, size the load, and a dump truck tips it on your site.

Start with CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone Illinois yards sell as road base. It compacts into a firm surface for drives, pads and shed bases.

Paths and garden walks usually want a finer, walkable layer on top.

Ground and Conditions in Mounds

Mounds sits in the Cairo lowland and the southern river bottoms, the lowest ground in the state. Deep silt, sand and clay lie under it, with sand ridges and old channel scars running through the bottomland.

The water table stays high across this part of southern Illinois. Backwater from the Ohio and Mississippi holds water on the land, and heavy rain has nowhere to go.

A thin base over that soft, saturated silt gives out fast. The surface ruts, pumps under tires and loses its shape, because the silt below never drains and never firms up.

The fix is a fines-bearing base that compacts into a mat over the soft ground. CA-6 binds and holds a grade where loose clean stone would sink straight in.

Work runs almost year round here, with the mildest winters in Illinois. River stages set the calendar, and spring high water can shut bottomland sites for weeks.

Frost is limited in this corner of the state, so freeze and thaw rarely drives the base design. The local building department sets any footing depth.

Materials for Mounds Projects

Lime screenings, also called limestone screenings or stone dust, are crushed limestone fines. They make the standard bedding layer under pavers and flagstone, and they firm into a smooth walking surface on garden paths.

Spread screenings over a compacted CA-6 base and wet them down. The fines lock together and give you a path that stays walkable through a wet southern Illinois spring.

For a looser surface, Walkway Gravel covers paths and garden walks that need a finer, easier surface underfoot. Lime Screenings suit bedding and backfill, and pack tighter than loose gravel.

CA-6 is the base course for drives, parking pads, garage floors and trench backfill. It carries the fines that let it compact.

CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, for drainage trenches and bedding under pipe.

CA-16 Chips are the 3/8 inch chips for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks. RipRap armors creek banks, culvert outlets and pond edges where water scours soft ground.

Delivery to Mounds and the Surrounding Area

Everything is ordered online. Choose your material, then choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard.

Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.

Pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck arrives and tips the load in one pile on your site, which is the whole of it.

Delivery covers Mounds and the rest of Pulaski County, including Mound City, Ullin, Karnak, Pulaski and Olmsted. Have the site reachable by a truck and a clear spot for the pile.

Questions About Ordering in Mounds

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

Have the delivery spot clear and reachable by a dump truck. Overhead lines, low branches and soft ground can stop a truck from getting in.

The driver tips the load in one pile, so mark a firm, open area where the material can sit without blocking the road or your driveway.

What is the best base under pavers in Mounds?

CA-6 is the base course under pavers here. Its fines compact into a firm mat over the soft bottomland silt, which clean stone cannot do.

Bed the pavers themselves in lime screenings, the standard bedding layer in Illinois. That pair holds a path or patio level through wet ground and high water tables.

Order Aggregate Delivery in Mounds

Size your load with the calculator on the product page, then check the quantity against your project before you order. When the numbers look right, place the order online and pick your delivery date.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Mounds and Pulaski County.