Contaminated soil excavation, removal, and site remediation supporting brownfield redevelopment and environmental cleanup. Serving Hamilton and all of Madison County.
Backwell provides professional environmental remediation services in Hamilton, Madison 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 Madison County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your environmental remediation project in Hamilton, 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.
Hamilton occupies the upper Chenango River valley in southern Madison County, on the Appalachian Plateau's northern margin. Soils across the village and surrounding commercial parcels are dominated by Lordstown and Mardin channery silt loams on the rolling uplands, transitioning to Chenango gravelly loam and Howard gravelly loam on the outwash terraces along the river, and Wayland silt loam in the floodplain itself.
The Chenango River and its tributaries drain south toward the Susquehanna, giving Hamilton a watershed profile more typical of the Southern Tier than of Central New York. Commercial site work in Hamilton often runs into shallow sandstone and siltstone bedrock on the hillsides above the village and around Colgate University, fragipan-restricted drainage on the channery silt loam uplands, and floodplain management along the Chenango corridor. Frost depth is deeper than in the lake-influenced counties to the north, pushing utility and foundation details accordingly. Projects near the river fall under both NYSDEC stream protection and municipal floodplain review. Projects on the Colgate campus and along Route 12B routinely require subsurface investigation to confirm rock and fragipan depth before finalizing grading plans.