Bulk Material Delivery in Murray, IA

Iowa Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Murray, IA and across Clarke County. Class A roadstone is the base this market builds on, and coarse stone is what holds the ground here.

Runoff cuts at the Southern Iowa Drift Plain. Water perches on the clay beneath the loess, then moves fast downhill.

Stone in the right size keeps that water from taking the ground with it.

Materials for Murray Projects

Slope, swale and bank work comes first on this ground. Runoff cuts when water reaches a bank fast, so the stone that slows it has to be big enough to stay put.

Coarse stone does that work.

Riprap is revetment stone for stream bank and river bank armoring, culvert outlets, pond edges and slopes against spring runoff. Class D revetment and Class E revetment are how the size is specified locally.

Large River Rock is oversized river rock for dry creek beds, splash pads and heavier decorative and bank work. It is rounded stone from the Missouri, Mississippi and their tributary valleys.

Railroad Ballast is ballast stone for track beds, heavy hard standing and severe drainage where large, angular stone is wanted.

Below the coarse sizes come the Clean Rock grades. Clean rock is washed and open graded, so water moves straight through it.

Use it for subdrains, drainage tile backfill, pipe bedding, septic rock and backfill behind retaining walls.

3/4" Crushed Stone is 3/4 inch clean stone for drive surfacing where a loose, free draining stone is wanted. It also beds pipe and backfills trenches.

For the base course, Class A roadstone is crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it binds and compacts. It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed bases and farm lanes.

Then Limestone Screenings bed pavers and flagstone, fill joints and top dress over a compacted base. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator.

Delivery to Murray and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick your delivery date at checkout. A dump truck tips the load in one pile at the site.

Choose your quantity by the ton or the yard before you check out.

The city sits in Clarke County, and delivery reaches Osceola and Woodburn as well. If your lane, pad or bank work is anywhere in that area, the truck can reach it.

Have the drop spot clear before the truck arrives. The pile lands where the truck can back in and tip, so keep that path open and wide enough for a loaded truck.

Ground and Conditions in Murray

Across the Southern Iowa Drift Plain, old till sits under a windblown loess mantle, with buried paleosols beneath. The Yarmouth-Sangamon paleosol is a thick, gummy 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, so water perches and runs off. Drives go soft at the bottom of a grade.

Spring rain on saturated clay is the worst of it.

This is Iowa's most eroded landscape. Streams cut deeply and hillslopes carry a fine texture of rills.

Gully and stream bank erosion after heavy rain is the main reason rock goes in on slopes and outlets.

The working season here is the longest in the state. Clay soils still need to dry before anything gets compacted, and a wet spring pushes base work back several weeks.

Cold winters bring repeated freeze-thaw, milder than the north but still enough to heave gravel drives and lanes every spring. A building official sets footing depth, commonly 42 inches in this part of the state.

Order Bulk Material for Your Murray Site

Iowa Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and topsoil to Murray, Osceola, Woodburn and the rest of Clarke County. Coarse stone for banks, roadstone for drives, sand and black dirt for the yard, all ordered by the ton or the yard.

Pick your delivery date at checkout and the truck brings it.