What is the difference between crushed stone and Natural Pea Gravel?

Crushed stone is angular, and Idaho yards say crushed rock or chips far more often than crushed stone. Natural Pea Gravel is round and uncrushed, which is why it rolls underfoot on a walkway. Chips knit together and stay where they are put, so they suit drive surfacing and pathways. Natural Pea Gravel suits patios, play areas and drainage.

Should I order material by the ton or by the yard?

Both work. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to help you size a load before you check out. Pick the delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the pile on site.

Which stone is best for drainage in Oneida County?

Clean angular rock is what drainage wants, and Idaho sells it as drain rock in 3/4 inch, 1 1/2 inch and 2 inch. Pit run is unprocessed gravel straight from the pit, so it does not drain the way clean rock does. Rip rap suits banks, culvert outlets and cut slopes against snowmelt runoff.

Oneida County Road Mix and Gravel Delivery, ID

Idaho Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Oneida County, ID. Road mix is the base most ground here starts from, and it is the material Idaho yards call crushed base with the fines left in.

Under a roller it locks up into a hard, tight surface.

The county sits in the Southeast Idaho valleys and the Bear River country, where loess and silt loam lie over limestone, sandstone and older sedimentary rock. That ground shapes what goes under a drive, a pad or a shop floor, so the base choice matters more than the surface color.

Delivery across Oneida County

You order online and a dump truck brings the load to the site. There is no counter to visit and nothing to arrange in person.

Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard.

Each product page has a calculator, so you can size a load before you check out. Pick your delivery date at checkout, and the truck tips the pile where it stops.

Coverage runs to Malad City, Holbrook and the surrounding county.

Materials delivered in Oneida County

Road mix carries the most weight in this market. It is specified locally two ways: state highway work follows the ITD Standard Specifications for Highway Construction, where Section 703.04 covers Aggregate for Untreated Base, Treated Base and Road Mix, the source of the 3/4 inch minus gradation.

Section 703.11 covers aggregate for granular subbase.

City, county and highway district work is usually written to the Idaho Standards for Public Works Construction, whose Section 802 covers crushed aggregate in Type I and Type II and Section 801 covers uncrushed aggregate. Those are the ways material gets described on plans here.

Road mix goes under driveways, parking pads, shop floors and shed slabs. Call it 3/4 minus or crushed aggregate and you are asking for the same load.

Clean washed rock handles water. Rip rap armors creek banks, culvert outlets and cut slopes against snowmelt and cloudburst runoff.

Sand and soil round out a job. Washed sand beds pavers and slabs, mason sand suits brick and block work, and garden soil fills raised beds where the native ground is too thin or too stony to plant into.

Ground conditions across Oneida County

Base and paver work runs from the spring thaw into the fall across the Southeast Idaho valleys and the Bear River country. The window is shorter in the higher valleys than it is on the valley floors.

Water comes off the ranges onto the valley floors faster than silt loam can take it. Alluvial fans at the canyon mouths carry sudden flows across building ground, and low land near the Bear River and Bear Lake stays wet into early summer.

Snowmelt and thunderstorm runoff cut canyon roads and fans, scour banks and gully the grazed and cropped loess slopes. Rip rap and clean drain rock are how you answer that on a slope or a bank.

Cold valley winters bring hard freezing and frequent swings either side of freezing. About 30 inches is the frost depth figure commonly used around Pocatello and the southeast valleys, and the local building official sets footing depth.

Choosing the right material

Cassia County sits in the Magic Valley and the central Snake River Plain, where a thin blanket of loess and wind-laid silt loam lies over fractured basalt. Rock often sits within a few feet of the surface there, with river gravel and sand along the Snake and rimrock and talus at the canyon edges.

That is thinner and rockier ground than Oneida County's loess over limestone and sandstone. Where rock is close under the surface, drainage moves differently and the base decision changes with it.

Bannock County and Franklin County share Oneida County's ground region, the Southeast Idaho valleys and the Bear River country, so the base and drainage choice is the same ground story.

Order road mix and crushed stone in Oneida County

Idaho Rock Supply delivers road mix, crushed rock, drain rock, sand and soil across Oneida County, including Malad City and Holbrook. Order online, choose your quantity by the ton or by the yard, pick a delivery date at checkout, and a truck brings the load to your site.

Order Road Mix and Crushed Stone in Oneida County, ID