Fill and Base Material Delivered in Oakley, ID

Idaho Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Oakley, ID, and most of it starts with sizing the load. Each product page has a calculator, and you order by the ton or by the yard.

Road mix is the base this market builds pads and drives on.

Ground here is a thin blanket of loess and silt loam over fractured basalt, with rock often within a few feet of the surface. That shallow ground is why raising grade and building up a pad matters before anything goes on top.

Delivery to Oakley and the Surrounding Area

You order online, pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile.

That is the whole of it.

Oakley sits in Cassia County, and delivery covers the town and the surrounding area. Neighboring places in the same county include Burley, Declo, Albion and Malta.

Bulk loads are heavy, so the drop point matters. Put the pile where the material is going to be worked, because once it is on the ground it stays where it landed.

Materials for Oakley Projects

Fill and sub-base do the quiet work on most Oakley projects. Fill dirt, also called structural fill, brings a low spot up and backfills around foundations, culverts and posts.

It goes in below the base, never as a surface.

Road mix is the base course that sits on top of it, under driveways, parking pads, shop floors and shed slabs. It is crushed base with the fines left in so it locks up under a roller.

Contractors here also call it 3/4 road mix, road base or 3/4 minus, and on public works plans it shows up as crushed aggregate, Type I or Type II.

For driveways, 3/4 Road Mix is the base and Driveway Gravel is the wearing surface on a long rural approach. Topping an existing drive is a different order from building one from bare ground.

For a patio or paver area, bedding matters as much as the base. Washed Sand beds pavers and slabs, and Stone Screenings work for paver bedding and joint filling.

3/8 Chip makes a walkable path surface over compacted base.

For drainage, 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.

#57 Stone covers the same ground where a national gradation is specified, though yards here more often say 3/4 inch drain rock.

Pit Run is unprocessed gravel straight from the pit, rock and fines at whatever sizes the pit gives. It works as sub base under road mix, as structural fill, and for filling holes or raising grade.

It is not a finished surface.

Ground and Conditions in Oakley

Across the Magic Valley and the central Snake River Plain, soil is a thin blanket of loess and wind-laid silt loam over fractured basalt. Rock often sits within a few feet of the surface.

A base built on that ground has less margin than one built on deep soil.

Water either runs into fractured basalt and vanishes or backs up where the soil over the rock is thin and tight. On the Magic Valley and the central Snake River Plain side, irrigation canals and springs along the Snake River canyon keep parts of the valley floor wet through the season.

That is what makes fill and sub-base the first call on a pad. Bring the grade up with fill, then set road mix on top of it, so the base is not sitting directly on shallow ground that holds water.

Erosion here comes from wind stripping dry bare fields, furrow and canal erosion on irrigated ground, and cloudburst runoff cutting into canyon rims and coulees. Bare ground loses material.

Cover it.

Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall, with spring dust and an early fall freeze-up as the practical limits at either end. Winters are cold and dry with hard freezing and repeated thaw cycles on open ground the wind never leaves alone.

No published frost depth figure was found for Cassia County. The working range used across the Magic Valley is roughly 24 to 30 inches, and Idaho code leaves the frost line to the local jurisdiction, so the building official sets it.

Order Road Mix and Fill for Your Oakley Project

Road mix is the base most Oakley pads, drives and shop floors are built on, and fill dirt brings the grade up underneath it. Idaho Rock Supply delivers both, along with drain rock, sand, chips and topsoil.

Size your load on the product page and place the order online.