Erosion control and slope stabilization for construction sites, waterways, and vulnerable properties in Central New York. Serving Central Square and all of Oswego County.
Backwell provides professional erosion control services in Central Square, Oswego County, and the surrounding area. Erosion costs landowners money and can shut down construction projects with compliance violations. Backwell provides erosion control solutions that protect your land, your waterways, and your project timeline. We install silt fencing, sediment basins, check dams, riprap, and permanent stabilization measures.
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 erosion control project in Central Square, 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.
Central Square occupies the south-central part of Oswego County, on the sandy lake plain left by Glacial Lake Iroquois between Oneida Lake and Lake Ontario. The working soils across the I-81 corridor and Route 49 commercial zones are Colonie loamy sand, Elnora loamy fine sand, and Granby loamy fine sand, all rapidly drained on uplands but paired with Ira and Stockholm loamy fine sands in the low ground where a hardpan perches winter water.
The landscape drains in multiple directions through a dense network of small tributaries feeding Big Bay, Oneida Lake, and the Oswego River. Commercial excavation here usually trades one set of problems for another: upland sand handles septic and infiltration well but lacks cohesion for steep cuts, while the lower-lying parcels require extensive stormwater treatment, shallow-water-table mitigation, and select structural fill. Frost depth and erodibility both push design details on parking lots, culverts, and utility trenches. Bedrock is not a normal concern in the lake-plain soils.