Bulk Gravel and Stone Delivery in Kanawha County, WV

West Virginia Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Kanawha County, WV. Work here runs most of the year, held up by long wet spells rather than by cold.

Crusher run is the base material this ground is built on.

Wet ground on the valley terraces in late winter and early spring is what delays a base job. Saturated hillside fill will not compact, so it should drain before anything goes on top.

Ground Conditions Across Kanawha County

Kanawha County spans two kinds of ground. The Kanawha valley floor through Charleston, South Charleston, St.

Albans and Dunbar is river terrace sand, gravel and silt, with made ground and old industrial fill in places.

That flat terrace ground drains slowly and sits high on the water table. The Kanawha and Elk back up in a big rain and put low ground under water.

Behind the valley floor the hills start at the back of the lot. Those hillside lots take concentrated runoff off slopes that begin right at the property line.

The coalfield side, around Eskdale, Cabin Creek, Gallagher and Hernshaw, is steeper still. Acid, stony residuum over sandstone, shale and coal measures sits above deep colluvium in the hollows, with narrow alluvial strips along the creek bottoms.

Rain off long, steep slopes funnels into one creek and one road. A drive there takes runoff gathered from well uphill, and culverts and ditches decide everything.

Old mine workings add their own discharges. Acid mine drainage from abandoned mines has left hundreds of miles of stream in the coalfields running acid, which is hard on metal pipe and on anything set in the water.

Slides and slumps are the other driver. Cut and fill for a hillside drive or pad is a common trigger, and creek banks scour hard in a flash rise.

Frost depth in Charleston runs about 24 inches under the city building department figure. Elsewhere the county or municipal official sets it, so confirm the local one.

Materials Delivered in Kanawha County

Crusher run is crushed stone with the fines left in, so it locks up tight under a roller and holds a grade on a hillside drive. West Virginia base material is specified by the WVDOH Standard Specifications for Roads and Bridges.

Section 307 covers crushed aggregate base course and takes its requirement from Subsection 704.6. That subsection grades base and subbase aggregate by numbered class in Table 704.6.2A, and Class 10 is footnoted as crusher run material only.

Local quarries sell crusher run by top size, 3/4 inch, 1-1/2 inch and coarser. Class 1 base is the heavier base course under drives, parking pads, shop floors and slabs.

Class 2 base is the finer crusher run class, used where a surface wants to be tighter than the coarse base gives.

67, No. 8 and No.

4. Local yards list #57 limestone and #8 limestone by those numbers.

Sand and soil round out a job. Mason Sand is fine sand for brick and block work and paver joints.

Washed Sand is coarser for levelling and bedding under slabs and pavers.

Garden Soil fills raised beds and planting holes. Shredded Mulch knits together and stays put better than nuggets on a grade.

Delivery Across Kanawha County

You order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, and you pick a delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Have the drop area clear and reachable, with room for the truck to get in and back out.

West Virginia Rock Supply delivers across the county, including Charleston, South Charleston, St. Albans, Dunbar, Nitro, Belle, Tornado, Clendenin, East Bank, Elkview, Cedar Grove, Eskdale, Hansford and Blount.

Choosing the Right Material

Fayette County and Boone County sit on the same coalfield ground as the steep side of Kanawha County. Acid, stony residuum over sandstone, shale and coal measures, deep colluvium in the hollows, and mine spoil on and below the old workings.

On that ground the base and drainage reasoning carries over. Flat ground is scarce and much of what is flat is fill, so a pad wants a heavier base course and clean stone for drainage.

Jackson County is different. Its ground is terrace sand, gravel and silt along the Ohio, some of it deep and free draining, with steep shale and sandstone hillsides and colluvium immediately behind.

That free-draining terrace changes the drainage choice. Ground that sheds water fast needs less clean stone under a pad than the tight valley fill does.

Order Gravel, Stone and Aggregate in Kanawha County

West Virginia Rock Supply delivers crusher run, base, washed stone, sand, topsoil and decorative rock across Kanawha County. Drives, parking pads, drainage runs, creek bank repair and bed work all start with the right material.

Order online, size your load, and pick a delivery date at checkout.