Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Le Claire, IA

For gravel and aggregate delivery in Le Claire, IA, the ground under your project decides what you need. Iowa Rock Supply sells bulk material online with delivery across Scott County.

Start with Class A roadstone, the crushed limestone base course with the fines left in. On the sandy terraces along the Mississippi River corridor, that base is where most builds begin.

Order online and a dump truck tips the load on site.

Delivery to Le Claire and the Surrounding Area

Ordering is online. You pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you want help sizing the load.

Choose your delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the material in one pile where you want it, anywhere in Le Claire or the rest of Scott County.

That includes Davenport, Bettendorf, Eldridge, Walcott and Blue Grass. Bulk loads go straight to the driveway, the lot or the job site.

Materials for Le Claire Projects

Decorative rock carries a lot of the landscaping work here, and the river valley is where the material comes from. Rounded gravel washed out of the Mississippi and its tributary valleys suits beds, borders and dry creek beds.

River Rock is the standard size for decorative beds and a dry creek bed. Large River Rock handles heavier bank work, splash pads and dry creek beds that need more mass.

For ground cover between plantings, 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is the Iowa name for Natural Pea Gravel. It works on walkways, play areas and patio bedding.

Hardscape projects take limestone screenings underneath. Limestone Screenings bed pavers and flagstone and fill the joints, and a finer grade is Washed Sand for leveling under slabs and pavers.

For a driveway, order Class A roadstone as the base and a coarser 1 inch roadstone under it on soft ground. For a patio, screenings under the pavers and washed sand for leveling.

For a drain, order clean rock. It is washed and open graded, so water moves straight through it, which suits subdrains, pipe bedding and backfill behind a retaining wall.

Ground and Conditions in Le Claire

The ground here is sand, gravel, silt and clay on the river terraces and floodplain, with sandy blow ground on the older terraces. Uplands of older till and loess rise behind the bluff line.

Those sandy terraces drain fast. The floodplain barely drains at all, so the same material can behave two different ways a short distance apart.

An under-built base shows it. Water sitting in the subgrade softens it, and roadstone with the fines left in binds and compacts only when it has something firm to sit on.

Spring snowmelt from the upper basin raises the river and backs water up the tributary mouths. Low ground floods long after local rain has stopped, so base work there waits for the crest to pass.

Erosion runs the other way on the banks. River bank cutting, flood scour and gully erosion on the loess covered bluffs are what rip rap and clean rock address.

Upland work follows the ordinary thaw to fall freeze pattern. Cold winters bring repeated freeze-thaw, enough to heave gravel drives and river road surfaces each spring.

Order Roadstone and Decorative Rock in Le Claire

Class A roadstone is the base course most of this work starts from, and the decorative rock comes out of the same river valley. Iowa Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Le Claire and Scott County.

Order online when you are ready.