New driveway construction and repair. Gravel driveways, base preparation for paved driveways, and driveway grading. Serving Syracuse and all of Onondaga County.
Backwell provides professional driveway construction services in Syracuse, Onondaga County, and the surrounding area. A driveway is the first thing people see when they arrive at your property, and it needs to hold up to daily use and CNY weather. Backwell builds driveways that last by getting the foundation right, proper excavation, subgrade preparation, drainage, and quality base material.
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 driveway construction project in Syracuse, 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.
Syracuse sits at the south end of Onondaga Lake in the heart of Onondaga County, on a landscape where the flat lake plain meets the rising Onondaga Escarpment. Native soils across the city's commercial corridors are a mix of Honeoye silt loam and Palmyra gravelly loam on the higher ground, University Hill, Westcott, Strathmore, with Lamson and Minoa fine sandy loams on the flats near the lake and muck pockets in the former wetland legacy areas around Ley Creek.
Drainage is dominated by Onondaga Creek, Harbor Brook, and Ley Creek, all feeding Onondaga Lake, and commercial earthwork frequently falls under the Onondaga Lake AOC cleanup framework in addition to the city's MS4 stormwater program. Site work in Syracuse consistently involves variable historic fill in the urban core, shallow Onondaga limestone along the escarpment and on University Hill, dewatering on lake-adjacent parcels, and structural fill importation where native lowland fines lose bearing under load. Frost-susceptible silt loams push utility burial across the city.