Contaminated soil excavation, removal, and site remediation supporting brownfield redevelopment and environmental cleanup. Serving Syracuse and all of Onondaga County.
Backwell provides professional environmental remediation services in Marcellus, 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 Marcellus, 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.
Marcellus occupies the Ninemile Creek valley in southwestern Onondaga County, where the creek drops off the Appalachian Plateau toward the Onondaga lowland through a deeply cut gorge. Upland soils are predominantly Honeoye silt loam and Mardin channery silt loam, with Lordstown channery silt loam on the steeper plateau slopes and Palmyra gravelly loam on the outwash benches along the creek.
Ninemile Creek drains north into Onondaga Lake, and its downstream remediation work imposes additional permitting and monitoring requirements on earthwork that affects the creek corridor. Commercial site work in Marcellus regularly involves shallow shale and siltstone bedrock on the plateau-edge parcels, steep-cut stabilization along the gorge walls, and fragipan-driven perched water on the higher silt loam uplands. Stormwater permitting ties into the Onondaga Lake watershed. Frost depth and slope stability both push detail on pavement, utility, and culvert work in and around the village. Projects in the creek corridor routinely require coordination with the Ninemile Creek remediation program. Subsurface investigation is commonly required before grading plans are finalized on plateau-edge parcels.