Clean Rock, Stone and Soil Delivery in Wapello, IA

Iowa Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Wapello, IA, from a single ton to a full lane rebuild. Class A roadstone is the base most drives around here start with: crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it binds and compacts.

The ground under Wapello decides the rest. Sandy terrace soils drain fast, floodplain ground barely drains at all, and both change what you put down first.

Materials for Wapello Projects

Washed stone does the water work on most sites here. Clean rock, sold as 1 inch clean or 1 1/2 inch clean, is washed and open graded, so water moves straight through it.

Use it in French drains, drywells, downspout runs, subdrains and pipe bedding.

It also backfills behind retaining walls, where trapped water would push the wall out. Clean Rock is the material for that job.

Above the drainage layer, base stone takes the load. Class A roadstone is the standard Iowa base course for driveways, parking pads, shed bases and farm lanes.

Class A Roadstone compacts into a surface that holds up through freeze and thaw.

For a new drive, a soft spot or a farm lane carrying heavy equipment, 1 inch roadstone goes down first as a coarser layer. 1 Inch Roadstone is crushed limestone with the fines left in.

Where a drive wants a loose, free draining surface instead of a bound one, 3/4 inch clean stone fits. 3/4" Crushed Stone also beds pipe and backfills trenches.

Fine material finishes and beds the work. Limestone screenings bed pavers and flagstone, fill joints and top dress a compacted roadstone base.

Limestone Screenings are the 3/8 inch minus grade.

Sand, soil and mulch cover the rest of a Wapello yard. Washed Sand beds and levels under slabs and pavers.

Top Soil, sold locally as black dirt, repairs lawns and preps beds. Shredded Mulch holds moisture through a dry Iowa August.

Delivery to Wapello and the Surrounding Area

Order online and a dump truck tips the load at your site. You choose the quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to help with that.

Pick your delivery date at checkout.

Iowa Rock Supply delivers across Wapello and Louisa County, including Columbus Junction, Morning Sun, Letts, Columbus City and Oakville.

Ground and Conditions in Wapello

Start with the working season. Across the Mississippi River corridor, low lying work waits for the spring river crest to pass before any base goes in.

Upland work runs from the thaw to the fall freeze.

The soils here are sand, gravel, silt and clay on the river terraces and floodplain, with sandy blow ground on the older terraces. Sandy ground drains fast.

Floodplain ground barely drains at all, so a drainage layer matters more on the low side of town.

Spring snowmelt from the upper basin raises the river and backs water up tributary mouths, flooding low ground long after local rain stops. River bank cutting and flood scour work on the banks, and gully erosion works the loess covered bluffs above the valley.

Repeated freeze and thaw heaves gravel drives and river road surfaces each spring. The frost depth commonly used around the Mississippi River corridor is 42 inches, and the local building official sets footing depth.

Order Aggregate Delivery in Wapello

Iowa Rock Supply delivers Class A roadstone, clean rock, sand, soil and mulch across Wapello and Louisa County. Choose your material, set the quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick your delivery date at checkout.

Order online when your site is ready.