Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Cheney, WA

Washington Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Cheney, WA, and the ground here drains fast. Open gravel under the Spokane and the Selkirk foothills moves water quickly, so surface water goes down with it.

That shapes what you order. 5/8 minus packs hard and sheds water, which suits drives, parking pads and shop slabs.

Delivery to Cheney and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.

Choose a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on site in one pile. Plan where that pile lands before the truck arrives.

Washington Rock Supply delivers across Spokane County, including Spokane, Liberty Lake, Airway Heights, Mead and Medical Lake.

Materials for Cheney Projects

Start with the project, then pick the stone. Beds, dry creek beds and ground cover take rounded material; drives and pads take crushed rock that compacts.

Round rock is the local name for rounded stone, and Washington yards file it that way rather than under crushed. Washington River Rock builds a dry creek bed that reads as water without holding it.

Large River Rock goes where a winter storm would carry smaller stone off. Use it on swale and ditch armour, bank toes and culvert outfalls.

Natural Pea Gravel is washed and rounded, so it will not compact. It suits play areas, dog runs and planting beds, and it should be edged where it can wander.

For a drive or a pad, 5/8 Minus is the Washington default surfacing course. The fines stay in, so it packs hard and sheds water instead of soaking it up.

Where water needs to move, Drain Rock keeps its voids. It handles footing drains, French drains and infiltration trenches.

Ground and Conditions in Cheney

Across the Spokane and the Selkirk foothills, the ground runs to cobbles, gravel and sand left by the Missoula floods. Granite and basalt outcrops sit on the hills, with a thin loess cap south and west of the city.

That open gravel drains almost too well. Water moves through the aquifer below it quickly, which makes infiltration easy and means whatever sits on the surface goes down with it.

Compacted fill and shallow basalt shelves are where the wet spots show up. An under-built base over either one will not hold, no matter what you put on top.

Runoff cuts the loess on the hills and gullies the draws and road ditches during the spring thaw. Sediment carried off an open site reaches the recharge ground, so cover bare ground before the wet season.

Eastern Washington's wet weather season for erosion control runs October 1 through June 30. Base and paving work fits the long dry summer, and the ground freezes hard after that.

Order 5/8 Minus and Decorative Rock for Cheney

5/8 minus is the surfacing course that fits most Cheney drives and pads, and the fines left in it let the rock pack hard. Pair it with drain rock where water needs to move, or with river rock for beds and dry creek beds.

Place your order online and pick a delivery date.