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

Crushed stone has angular, broken faces from the crusher. Natural Pea Gravel is rounded and washed, at about 3/8 inch, and it is walkable underfoot. Crushed stone locks together under compaction, which is what a base needs. Natural Pea Gravel does not lock up, so it suits walkways, play areas, dog runs and drainage beds instead.

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

Either works, and the choice is yours at checkout. Each product page has a calculator for sizing the load. Order by the ton when you are working from a weight, and by the yard when you are working from volume.

Which stone is best for drainage in Elk County?

Clean washed stone is the drainage choice, because it has no fines to hold water. 1 inch clean works for French drains, foundation drains and pipe bedding. 3/4 inch crushed stone suits drainage beds and trench backfill. Under both, the heavy clay still needs a place for the water to go.

Gravel, Soil and Stone for Elk County, KS

Kansas Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Elk County, KS. Most base work here starts with AB-3, the Kansas name for dense-graded crushed limestone base.

It is crushed rock and fines together, graded roughly 1 1/2 inch down, and it locks up tight when it is moisture-conditioned and rolled.

Delivery across Elk County

Order online and pick a delivery date at checkout. Material comes by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator for sizing the load.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile on site. Deliveries reach Howard, Moline, Longton, Grenola and Elk Falls, along with the rest of the county.

Materials delivered in Elk County

AB-3 does the heavy work: driveways, parking pads, shed and shop bases, and road shoulders.

City and county work references the same class.

Ground conditions across Elk County

Across the Osage Cuestas and the eastern Kansas clay country, the soil is heavy clay weathered from Pennsylvanian shale, sitting between limestone-capped ridges. That clay takes water very slowly, so it perches on the surface.

A drive laid straight on clay pumps fines up into the surface course. Working the clay when it is neither saturated nor bone dry gives the best results, which puts late spring and early fall among the steadiest weeks for base work.

Heavy spring and early summer thunderstorms wash unbound surfaces off the cuesta slopes and scour creek banks and culvert outlets. RipRap and clean stone are the usual answer on those banks.

Choosing the right material

Greenwood County sits in the Flint Hills, on thin cherty clay over flat-lying limestone and shale. Rock is often only inches below the surface there, with cherty gravel capping the hilltops.

That is thinner ground than Elk County's heavy shale clay. Shallow rock changes what a base course has to do, and drainage water has less soil to move through.

Montgomery and Wilson counties share Elk County's ground region, so the base and drainage choices there start from the same heavy clay. The ground is the same, and so is the reasoning behind AB-3 as a base and clean rock as a drainage layer.

Order bulk material for your Elk County project

Kansas Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Elk County, including Howard, Moline, Longton, Grenola and Elk Falls. Order AB-3 for a base, clean rock for drainage, or topsoil for a new lawn.

Size the load by the ton or the yard and pick your delivery date at checkout.

AB-3, Sand and Gravel Delivery in Elk County, KS