Riprap and Bulk Aggregates for Turtle Creek, WV

Rain off these steep slopes gathers fast and runs to one creek and one road. Gravel and aggregate delivery in Turtle Creek, WV starts with that fact.

West Virginia Rock Supply hauls crusher run, drainage stone and bank armour by the ton, straight to your site.

On the Allegheny Plateau coalfields side of the state, the ground is acid, stony residuum over sandstone, shale and coal measures. Hollows hold deep colluvium.

Flat ground is scarce and much of what is flat is fill.

Materials for Turtle Creek Projects

This is coarse stone country. Slope, swale and bank work want big angular rock first, then clean washed stone for the water that keeps moving after the armour is set.

Coarse armour and heavy drainage

Riprap is bank and slope armour. Use it on creek and hollow banks, culvert outlets and toe protection under a slipping fill.

West Virginia yards sell it by stone size and by weight class.

Railroad Ballast is coarse angular stone for track beds, hard standing and severe drainage. It is the size to reach for when water needs to move through a heavy section without pooling.

#4 Crushed Stone is 1-1/2 inch clean stone. Use it for construction entrances, trench bottoms and the first lift over very soft ground.

Clean washed stone for drainage

#57 Limestone, sold locally as #57 stone, is 1 inch clean washed stone. It suits French drains, pipe bedding, concrete work and construction entrances.

Drain Rock covers French drains, drywells, foundation drains and downspout runs. Rounded decorative stone does not belong in a drainage trench; you want crushed, washed and open.

#8 Limestone is a small washed chip, roughly 3/8 inch down to 1/4 inch. Use it for paver joints, pipe bedding and fine drainage.

Base, drive and finish

Crusher Run, called crush and run locally, is crushed stone with the fines left in. It locks up tight under a roller and holds a grade on a hillside drive.

Quarries here sell it by top size.

Class 1 Base is the heavier base course under drives, parking pads, shop floors and slabs. Build it up when the subgrade is soft ground or old fill.

Class 2 base is the finer crusher run class and works as a top course over it.

Delivery to Turtle Creek and the Surrounding Area

West Virginia Rock Supply delivers across Boone County. That covers Turtle Creek along with Madison, Danville, Racine, Whitesville and Comfort.

Order online. Pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load yourself.

Then choose a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck tips your load in one pile at the site.

Have the delivery point clear and reachable, because the truck cannot set the pile where you want it.

Ground and Conditions in Turtle Creek

Work runs most of the year here. Long wet spells hold it up more than cold does.

Saturated hillside fill will not compact, so wait for it to drain before you build on it.

This is the most landslide-prone ground in the state. Steep slopes, mine regolith, shale and siltstone all move, and unreclaimed workings, timber cutting, road cuts and sidecast fill set them off.

Creek banks scour hard in a flash rise.

So armour the banks and outlets with coarse stone. Catch the water in a swale before it reaches a fill.

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

Freeze-thaw runs all winter, and the worst damage to a drive shows up during the spring thaw. Frost depth is set by the county or municipal building official, so confirm the local one.

Questions About Stone and Delivery in Turtle Creek

What stone should I use for drainage in Turtle Creek?

Use clean washed stone that water passes through. #57 limestone covers French drains, downspout runs and pipe bedding, and #8 limestone suits tighter joints and fine drainage.

#4 crushed stone handles trench bottoms and the first lift over soft ground. Keep fines-bearing material like crusher run out of a drainage trench, because it holds water instead of shedding it.

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

Have the delivery point clear, reachable and wide enough for a dump truck. The truck tips the load in one pile, so plan where that pile lands before it backs in.

If the ground is soft or the slope is steep, pick a firm spot near the work. Order online, choose your date at checkout, and the load comes to the site.

Order Stone for Turtle Creek

West Virginia Rock Supply delivers riprap, crusher run, drainage stone, sand, topsoil and mulch across Turtle Creek and the rest of Boone County. Order online by the ton or by the yard, choose your delivery date at checkout, and a truck tips the load on site.