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 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 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.
Syracuse sits at the south end of Onondaga Lake in the heart of Onondaga County, on a landscape where the flat lake plain meets the rising Onondaga Escarpment. Native soils across the city's commercial corridors are a mix of Honeoye silt loam and Palmyra gravelly loam on the higher ground, University Hill, Westcott, Strathmore, with Lamson and Minoa fine sandy loams on the flats near the lake and muck pockets in the former wetland legacy areas around Ley Creek.
Drainage is dominated by Onondaga Creek, Harbor Brook, and Ley Creek, all feeding Onondaga Lake, and commercial earthwork frequently falls under the Onondaga Lake AOC cleanup framework in addition to the city's MS4 stormwater program. Site work in Syracuse consistently involves variable historic fill in the urban core, shallow Onondaga limestone along the escarpment and on University Hill, dewatering on lake-adjacent parcels, and structural fill importation where native lowland fines lose bearing under load. Frost-susceptible silt loams push utility burial across the city.