Contaminated soil excavation, removal, and site remediation supporting brownfield redevelopment and environmental cleanup. Serving Liverpool and all of Onondaga County.
Backwell provides professional environmental remediation services in Liverpool, Onondaga 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 Onondaga County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your environmental remediation project in Liverpool, 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.
Liverpool wraps the northern end of Onondaga Lake in Onondaga County, on a low-relief lake plain built largely from historic lake-bottom and marsh deposits. Soils along the Old Liverpool Road, Route 370, and the I-81 commercial corridors are dominated by Lamson and Minoa fine sandy loams and very fine sandy loams, with Carlisle muck and Palms muck in the extensive wetland legacy parcels around Onondaga Lake Park and the Seneca River mouth.
Hydrology in Liverpool is defined by Onondaga Lake, the Seneca River, and multiple small tributaries feeding both. The Onondaga Lake Superfund/AOC cleanup program controls earthwork, dewatering, and soil-disposal permitting on a significant fraction of the commercially zoned land. Site work here commonly involves variable historic industrial fill, high water tables within a few feet of the surface, and structural fill importation where native silty fines lose bearing under saturated loading. Bedrock is deep. Stormwater design ties directly into the Onondaga Lake watershed framework. Projects along Old Liverpool Road and Onondaga Lake Parkway almost always require specialized subsurface characterization and remediation-grade soil management plans.