Bulk Aggregates for Erosion Control in Reedsville, WV

West Virginia Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Reedsville, WV, ordered online by the ton or the yard. If you are sizing a load, each product page has a calculator.

Start with crusher run for a drive or pad, then size up to coarse stone where the ground is steep. The Allegheny highlands side of Preston County sheds water fast, so what you put on a slope matters as much as what you put under it.

Materials for Reedsville Projects

Coarse stone does the heavy work on slope, swale and bank protection here. On steep ground over shallow soil, water runs instead of soaking in, and it scours whatever it crosses on the way down.

Riprap is the armour for that job. Creek and hollow banks, culvert outlets, toe protection under slipping fill and channel work after a washout all take Riprap, sold by stone size and by weight class.

Where the stone is too big for the channel, drop to #4 Crushed Stone. That is 1-1/2 inch clean stone, coarse and angular, and it goes down as a first lift over very soft ground, in trench bottoms and at construction entrances.

One step finer, #57 Limestone is washed 1 inch clean stone. West Virginia quarries sell sandstone under the same size numbers, so treat the number as how the size is specified locally rather than a claim about the rock.

#57 stone is what French drains, pipe bedding, concrete work and drywells take, and it is the size to reach for when you want water to move through a bed instead of sitting in it.

#67 Stone is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone for drainage beds and bedding where #57 runs a shade too big. Below that, #8 Limestone is a small washed chip for pipe bedding, paver joints and a dressing over a compacted base.

Under all of it, the base course is Crusher Run, or the heavier Class 1 Base where the subgrade is soft ground or old fill. Class 2 base is the finer crusher run class, and in West Virginia that name also covers a riprap weight class, so keep the two straight when you order.

Delivery to Reedsville and the Surrounding Area

Reedsville sits in Preston County, and West Virginia Rock Supply delivers bulk loads to sites here and to the rest of the county, including Kingwood, Terra Alta, Rowlesburg, Masontown and Tunnelton.

You order online. Quantities are by the ton or by the yard, and you pick a delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile on site.

Have a spot for the pile that is clear and firm, and that the truck can reach without crossing anything soft or buried. A load set down on soft organic ground can sink and mix with the soil underneath.

Fill dirt, garden soil and Top Soil come the same way, so a grading or lawn order can go in alongside the stone.

Ground and Conditions in Reedsville

The working season is the shortest in West Virginia. The ground freezes early, thaws late and cycles through freeze-thaw well into spring, and snow cover sits for weeks at a time on the high benches.

That timing drives a delivery more than anything else. Base, drive and paver work waits for the ground to thaw and drain, and it stops earlier in the fall than it does downstate.

Across the Allegheny highlands and the Allegheny Front, the soil is thin, acid and very stony over sandstone and shale, with deep colluvium on the side slopes. Bedrock is close to the surface on the benches.

Water is the other half of it. This is the wettest ground in the state, and on steep, shallow soil over rock the rain and snowmelt cannot soak in, so they run.

Springs and seeps break out partway down a slope and will run straight through an undrained base.

Slides and slumps show up on slopes over about 17 degrees, in shale and siltstone residuum and in colluvium, with old timber roads and skidder trails adding to it. Mountain streams rise hard and fast and scour banks, culvert outlets and the shoulders of gravel roads.

Frost depth is set by the county building official. No state table gives a figure for the highlands, so confirm it locally rather than working off a number from another part of the state.

Questions About Stone in Reedsville

What stone should I use for drainage in Reedsville?

Use clean washed stone, not a fines-bearing material. #57 limestone is the 1 inch size for French drains, drywells and pipe bedding, and #67 stone is the 3/4 inch size when #57 runs a shade too big.

#8 limestone suits tighter work such as pipe bedding and paver joints. Keep crusher run and Class 1 base to base and drive work, because the fines in them hold water rather than pass it.

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

A clear, firm spot for the pile, and a route the truck can take without crossing anything soft or buried. The driver tips the load in one pile, so the placement is yours to work from afterwards.

If the ground is soft, pick a drier spot nearby. Order online and choose your delivery date at checkout.

Order Aggregate Delivery in Reedsville

West Virginia Rock Supply delivers crusher run, coarse stone for slope and bank work, drainage stone, sand, soil and mulch to Reedsville and the rest of Preston County. Size your load on the product page, order by the ton or the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Place your order online and we will have a truck out with your material.