Contaminated soil excavation, removal, and site remediation supporting brownfield redevelopment and environmental cleanup. Serving Oswego and all of Oswego County.
Backwell provides professional environmental remediation services in Oswego, 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 Oswego, 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.
Oswego sits at the mouth of the Oswego River on Lake Ontario, on bluffs and terraces shaped by both river and lake action. Soils across the city's commercial corridors are dominated by Arkport fine sandy loam and Dunkirk silt loam on the bluff tops, with Colonie loamy sand on the inland sandy plains, Lamson very fine sandy loam on the river terraces, and Canandaigua silty clay loam on the relict lakebed flats.
Hydrology is dominated by the Oswego River, the SUNY Oswego lakefront, and the historic harbor infrastructure. Commercial site work in Oswego regularly involves coastal bluff stability concerns, erodibility of the fine sandy loam subgrades, and NYSDEC coastal erosion and Great Lakes watershed permitting in addition to standard municipal review. Harbor-side parcels often carry variable historic fill, requiring subsurface characterization before excavation. Lake-effect snowfall pushes culvert sizing and stormwater infrastructure. Shallow Oswego-series sandstone bedrock can appear on the higher bluffs, though most commercial excavation stays above rock. Structural fill importation is common on the lower parcels, and subsurface investigation is routine before excavation on any harbor-side commercial site.