Bulk Aggregates for Pathways in Oreana, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Oreana, IL. The working season here runs from the spring thaw into late fall, and the ground is slow to dry in a wet spring.

CA-6 is the base material most of that work starts from.

Oreana sits in Macon County on the Grand Prairie till plain, where deep, dark prairie silt loams cover flat ground with dense clay beneath it. Water stands rather than runs after heavy rain, so what you put down matters as much as when you put it down.

Ground and Conditions in Oreana

Across the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, the ground is some of the flattest in the country. Dense clay subsoil sits under deep silt loam with almost no natural fall.

Water stands after heavy rain instead of running off.

A thin base shows that failure first. Material spread too shallow over silt loam punches through under a truck tire, and the edges break away where runoff concentrates.

The fix is a compacted CA-6 course that carries the load instead of riding on top of soft ground.

Cold winters bring repeated freeze and thaw, and frost heave shows up in gravel drives and walks each spring. Frost depth runs about 36 inches through most of central and eastern Illinois, rising to 40 or 42 inches toward the northern edge.

The local building department sets the figure that applies to your footing work.

Bare silt loam also erodes as sheet wash, and runoff that concentrates cuts gullies in yards and field edges. A clean stone drainage layer and a shaped surface move that water away instead of letting it sit on the base.

Materials for Oreana Projects

Fines and screenings do the detailed work on paths and walkways around Oreana. Lime Screenings are crushed limestone fines, and they bed pavers and flagstone and surface a garden walk that needs a firm, fine finish.

Torpedo sand, sold as Washed Sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding.

For the base under all of it, CA-6 is the Illinois dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in. It goes down for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

CA-6 compacts into a firm surface because the fines bind the stone together.

Where water has to move, you want clean washed stone with no fines. CA-7 is the one inch clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone for bedding, drainage and concrete work.

Smaller chips finish tight work. CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch limestone chips for permeable paver bedding, drainage around tanks and topping a compacted base.

Delivery to Oreana and the Surrounding Area

You order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size the load before you check out.

Pick a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on site in one pile.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers across Macon County, including Decatur, Mount Zion, Forsyth, Maroa and Warrensburg. Have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives.

The driver tips the load and leaves it where it lands.

Order Bulk Aggregates for Your Oreana Project

Size your load with the calculator on each product page, then order by the ton or the yard and pick your delivery date at checkout. Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, clean stone, screenings and sand across Oreana and Macon County.

Place your order online when you are ready.