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 Port Byron, Cayuga 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 Port Byron, 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.
Port Byron occupies the Owasco Outlet / Seneca River corridor in northeastern Cayuga County, on terrain shaped by the Erie Canal and the surrounding drumlin field. Soils across the village and adjacent parcels are a mix of Honeoye silt loam and Lima silt loam on the drumlin flanks, Palmyra gravelly loam on the outwash benches, and Canandaigua silty clay loam and Lyons silt loam in the low canal-side flats.
The Erie Canal, the Seneca River, and the Owasco Outlet all converge near the village, creating a complex hydrologic picture with multiple base-level controls. Commercial site work in Port Byron regularly involves structural fill on the clay-loam and silt-loam flats, cobbly trenching on the drumlin flanks, and dewatering on canal-adjacent and river-adjacent parcels. NYS Canal Corp review applies inside the canal prism. Stormwater permitting ties into the Seneca / Oswego River watershed. Shallow bedrock can appear on the higher drumlin summits but is rarely a design constraint on commercial buildable land.