Contaminated soil excavation, removal, and site remediation supporting brownfield redevelopment and environmental cleanup. Serving Central Square and all of Oswego County.
Backwell provides professional environmental remediation services in Central Square, Oswego County, and the surrounding area. Contaminated sites need careful excavation and material handling to protect workers, the public, and the environment. Backwell provides the earthwork component of environmental remediation projects, contaminated soil excavation, segregation, loading, and transport to approved disposal facilities.
Based in Constantia, NY, we are local to Oswego County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your environmental remediation project in Central Square, 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.
Central Square occupies the south-central part of Oswego County, on the sandy lake plain left by Glacial Lake Iroquois between Oneida Lake and Lake Ontario. The working soils across the I-81 corridor and Route 49 commercial zones are Colonie loamy sand, Elnora loamy fine sand, and Granby loamy fine sand, all rapidly drained on uplands but paired with Ira and Stockholm loamy fine sands in the low ground where a hardpan perches winter water.
The landscape drains in multiple directions through a dense network of small tributaries feeding Big Bay, Oneida Lake, and the Oswego River. Commercial excavation here usually trades one set of problems for another: upland sand handles septic and infiltration well but lacks cohesion for steep cuts, while the lower-lying parcels require extensive stormwater treatment, shallow-water-table mitigation, and select structural fill. Frost depth and erodibility both push design details on parking lots, culverts, and utility trenches. Bedrock is not a normal concern in the lake-plain soils.