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 North Syracuse, 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 North 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.
North Syracuse occupies the low-relief lake plain north of Syracuse proper, on terrain built from Glacial Lake Iroquois sediments and reworked Seneca River alluvium. Soils across the village and the I-81 / Route 11 commercial corridors are a mix of Lamson and Minoa fine sandy loams and very fine sandy loams on the flats, Palmyra gravelly loam on the modest beach-ridge rises, and Sun and Lyons silt loams in the poorly drained swales between them.
The regional drainage runs through Ley Creek and Bear Trap Creek toward Onondaga Lake, with very flat gradients and extensive historic ditching. Commercial excavation in North Syracuse consistently involves shallow water tables within a few feet of the surface on the fine-textured parcels, structural fill importation where native soils cannot carry pavement loading, and stormwater design that ties into the Onondaga Lake watershed framework. Bedrock is deep and rarely a constraint. Frost-susceptible fines and flat drainage gradients drive pavement, slab, and utility details on most commercial sites.