Fill Dirt Delivery for Eddyville, IA

Gravel and Aggregate Delivery in Eddyville, IA

What do you order when a building pad sits too low, or a drive keeps going soft at the bottom of a grade? Iowa Rock Supply delivers gravel and aggregate in Eddyville, IA, and the answer usually starts with fill dirt and a compacted Class A roadstone base.

Eddyville sits in Wapello County, on ground where a windblown loess mantle covers old clay till across the Southern Iowa Drift Plain.

Delivery to Eddyville and the Surrounding Area

You order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to turn your measurements into a number before you check out.

You choose a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load in one pile at your site. That covers Eddyville and the rest of Wapello County, including Ottumwa, Eldon, Agency, Kirkville and Blakesburg.

Bulk loads are heavy and the truck needs room to reach the drop point. Work out where the pile should land before the truck arrives, because the load is tipped and left.

Materials for Eddyville Projects

The lead material here is fill and sub-base, because so much of the work around Eddyville starts by raising grade. Low ground, a new building pad, a shed base or a lane that has settled all need material under them before anything goes on top.

Start with fill dirt to bring the grade up. It is clay fill or sandy fill dirt, used for filling low ground and backfilling before a roadstone course goes down.

Then cap it with Class A roadstone, the crushed limestone base course with the fines left in so it binds and compacts. It carries driveways, parking pads, shed bases and farm lanes.

For a new drive, a soft spot or a lane that carries heavy equipment, 1 inch roadstone is the coarser grade. It goes down first, under a finer surface course.

• Fill Dirt for raising grade and backfilling before a base course.
• Class A Roadstone for drives, parking pads, shed bases and farm lanes.
• 1 Inch Roadstone for a new drive or a lane under heavy equipment.
• Washed Sand for bedding and leveling under slabs and pavers.
• Top Soil for lawn repair, grading and bed prep once the base is in.

Ground and Conditions in Eddyville

Across the Southern Iowa Drift Plain, old till sits under a loess mantle, and beneath that is a thick grey clay that water will not move through. Farmers call working in it gumbo.

Ground like that drains at the surface but not below it. Water perches, runs off, and leaves a drive soft at the bottom of a grade, worst in spring rain on saturated clay.

This is the most eroded landscape in Iowa, with streams cut deep and gullies opening after heavy rain. That is why rock goes in on slopes and at outlets, and why an under-built base fails early.

Southern Iowa has the longest working season in the state, but clay has to dry before anything gets compacted. A wet spring pushes base work back several weeks.

Cold winters bring repeated freeze-thaw, which heaves gravel drives and lanes every spring.

Order Fill Dirt and Class A Roadstone in Eddyville

For raising grade and building a pad that holds, start with fill dirt and finish with Class A roadstone, the crushed limestone base this part of Iowa builds on. Order online from Iowa Rock Supply, size the load by the ton or the yard, and set your delivery date at checkout.