Commercial, residential, barn, and asbestos demo and demolition with full debris removal. Complete teardown from permits to final cleanup. Serving Syracuse and all of Onondaga County.
Backwell provides professional demo and demolition services in Solvay, Onondaga County, and the surrounding area. Backwell provides full-scope demo and demolition services for commercial buildings, residential structures, barns, and industrial facilities throughout Central New York. We manage the entire process from pre-demolition assessments and permits through final debris removal and site grading. For structures containing asbestos, we partner with licensed abatement professionals to handle the hazardous materials, then complete the structural demolition and cleanup.
Based in Constantia, NY, we are local to Onondaga County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your demo or demolition project in Solvay, you get a crew that shows up on time with the right equipment and gets the job done. Contact us today for a free estimate.
Solvay occupies the west shore of Onondaga Lake in Onondaga County, on a landscape dominated by the legacy of the Solvay Process Company's soda ash wastebeds. Native soils across the village are predominantly Palmyra gravelly loam on the higher outwash benches and Lamson and Minoa fine sandy loams on the lowland flats, but historic industrial fill — including the characteristic white Solvay wastebed material — overlies a substantial fraction of the commercially zoned land.
Onondaga Creek and Ninemile Creek both discharge near the village, and the Onondaga Lake AOC cleanup program controls earthwork, dewatering, and soil-disposal permitting on a significant portion of the buildable land. Commercial site work in Solvay consistently involves subsurface characterization to define the extent of Solvay waste and historic industrial fill, engineered containment and soil-management plans, and stormwater design that ties into the Onondaga Lake watershed framework. Bedrock is deep. Groundwater chemistry issues are a recurring factor in utility and foundation design. Projects along Milton Avenue and the lakefront almost always require remediation-grade soil management plans and close coordination with the Onondaga Lake AOC program.