Order Road Mix and Crushed Stone in Bingham County, ID
Idaho Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone and aggregate in Bingham County, ID. Start with road mix when you need a base that locks up under a roller.
Basalt sits close to the surface on much of the Upper Snake River Plain and the eastern farm valleys. Water has nowhere to go, so a drive or a footing needs a base that drains and holds.
Materials Delivered in Bingham County
Order by project. A driveway, a patio and a drain each want a different load.
Road mix is the base course under driveways, parking pads, shop floors and shed slabs. Idaho yards call it 3/4 road mix or 3/4 minus, and it is crushed base with the fines left in so it locks up under a roller.
State highway work writes it under the ITD Standard Specifications, Section 703.04, which is where the 3/4 inch minus gradation comes from. City, county and highway district work usually writes it as crushed aggregate, Type I or Type II, under the Idaho Standards for Public Works Construction.
Order 3/4 Road Mix for any of those jobs.
Pit run is unprocessed gravel straight from the pit, rock and fines at whatever sizes the pit gives. Use it as sub base under road mix, as structural fill, or to fill holes and raise grade.
It is not a finished surface. See Pit Run.
Drain rock is clean angular rock for french drains, foundation drains, drywells, septic drainfields and downspout runs. It comes in 3/4 inch, 1 1/2 inch and 2 inch.
Order Drain Rock where water needs to move.
3/4 inch crushed rock is an angular rock that stays put, used for drive surfacing, pipe bedding and drainage. Idaho says crushed rock far more often than crushed stone.
See 3/4" Crushed Stone.
3/8 chip is angular, so it knits together and stays where it is put, unlike Natural Pea Gravel. Use it on pathways, as a leveling course, or as a topping over a compacted base.
Order 3/8 Chip.
Natural Pea Gravel is round and uncrushed, which is why it rolls underfoot where chips do not. It suits patios, dog runs, play areas, walkways and drainage.
River rock is round rock for decorative beds, borders, dry creek beds and water features. Idaho yards list it as round rock as often as river rock.
Order Snake River Rock, or Large River Rock in the 2 inch to 10 inch range for heavier decorative work.
Rip rap armors creek banks, culvert outlets, canal banks, pond edges and cut slopes against snowmelt and cloudburst runoff. See RipRap.
Topsoil and garden soil go over thin desert soil, basalt ground and stony mountain ground. Use Top Soil for lawns and bed prep, and Garden Soil for raised beds where the native ground is too thin, too stony or too alkaline to plant into.
Washed concrete sand beds pavers and slabs and mixes into concrete. Mason sand is the finer, even sand for brick and block work, paver joints and play sand.
Order Washed Sand or Mason Sand.
Ground Conditions Across Bingham County
The ground here is young basalt with thin soil over it across much of the Upper Snake River Plain and the eastern farm valleys. River sand and gravel runs along the Snake and the Henrys Fork, and wind-laid silt and dune sand sits north of the river.
Deeper irrigated silt loam covers the farmed ground.
Basalt close to the surface leaves water nowhere to go. A drive or a footing sits on thin ground over rock, so the base has to carry what the soil cannot.
Canal seepage and heavy spring irrigation lift the water table under low farmed ground. That is where a clean drainage layer earns its place, and why pit run belongs under road mix rather than on top of it.
Spring runoff off the Caribou and Centennial ranges moves a lot of water. Wind moves dune sand and dry field soil.
Canal banks and culvert outlets wash out during snowmelt, which is what rip rap is for.
The season is short. Frozen ground stops compaction from late fall to early spring, so the dependable base and paver window runs from late spring into early autumn.
Winters here are the coldest sustained in settled Idaho, with long hard freezes at 4,500 feet and above and a sharp heaving thaw in spring. About 30 inches is the frost depth figure commonly used at Idaho Falls and through the upper Snake River towns.
The local building official sets footing depth.
Delivery Across Bingham County
Order online and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile.
Choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you order.
Delivery covers Blackfoot, Shelley, Aberdeen, Firth, Atomic City, Pingree and Springfield, along with the surrounding rural ground.
Choosing the Right Material
Ground changes what a base needs. Compare the counties around Bingham and the difference shows up fast.
Bannock County sits in the Southeast Idaho valleys and the Bear River country. Its ground is loess and silt loam over limestone, sandstone and older sedimentary rock, with deep valley alluvium between steep ranges and coarse gravel fans where the canyons open out.
That is finer ground than the basalt and thin soil here, so a base there sits on silt rather than on rock.
Power County and Bonneville County each span more than one zone, and both include the Upper Snake River Plain and the eastern farm valleys. On that ground the conditions match Bingham County, so the base and drainage choice is the same.
Order Road Mix and Crushed Stone for Your Bingham County Job
Road mix is the base to start with on Bingham County ground, and clean drain rock handles the water that basalt will not take. Idaho Rock Supply delivers both, along with sand, topsoil and decorative rock, by the ton or the yard.
Order online and pick your delivery date at checkout.