Rip Rap, Stone and Soil Delivery in Rantoul, IL

Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Rantoul, IL to driveways, drainage work and landscaping projects. Rantoul sits on the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, where deep dark silt loams sit over dense clay.

That flat ground and heavy subsoil shape what you order. CA-6, also called road base, is the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, and it is where most base work starts.

Materials for Rantoul Projects

When water stands instead of running, the material that protects the ground matters as much as the material under it. Coarse stone slows moving water, armors bare soil and keeps swales and banks from cutting away during a heavy rain.

Rip rap is the heavy broken stone for bank protection, culvert outlets, pond edges and slope armoring.

See RipRap.

Below that, CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, and it is the size for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains.

See CA-7.

CA-11 is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone that yards sell alongside CA-7 for bedding, drainage and concrete flatwork.

See 3/4" Crushed Stone.

For the base itself, CA-6 is the dense graded crushed limestone for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

See CA-6.

Where you need a walkable surface rather than a structural base, walkway gravel gives paths and garden walks a finer finish. See Walkway Gravel.

Delivery to Rantoul and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator if you need help sizing the load.

Rantoul sits in Champaign County, and deliveries reach the city and the surrounding area, including Champaign, Urbana, Mahomet, Savoy and St. Joseph.

A dump truck tips your load in one pile on site.

Have a clear spot picked out before the truck arrives, with room for the truck to reach it and turn around. Loose material cannot be placed for you, so the pile lands where the truck can safely stop.

Ground and Conditions in Rantoul

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.

Across the Grand Prairie till plain, this is some of the flattest ground in the country, with dense clay subsoil beneath it and almost no natural fall. Farmland here is tile drained for that reason, and water stands rather than runs after heavy rain.

Plan your delivery around that window and around the weather. A wet spring pushes grading back, and frozen ground will not take a base course at all.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Bare silt loam erodes in sheets, runoff concentrates into gullies, and stream banks scour after heavy rain, which is why coarse stone does so much work here.

Order Gravel and Stone Delivery in Rantoul

Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Rantoul and the surrounding Champaign County area. Choose your material, set the quantity by the ton or yard, and pick your delivery date at checkout.

Order online when your project is ready.