Erosion control and slope stabilization for construction sites, waterways, and vulnerable properties in Central New York. Serving Palmyra and all of Wayne County.
Backwell provides professional erosion control services in Palmyra, Wayne 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 Wayne County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your erosion control project in Palmyra, 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.
Palmyra occupies the Ganargua Creek valley in western Wayne County, inside the Finger Lakes drumlin field. Soils across the village and the Route 31 commercial corridor are dominated by Palmyra gravelly loam, the series named for the village, and Honeoye silt loam on the drumlin flanks, with Canandaigua silty clay loam and Wayland silt loam on the creek and Erie Canal flats.
The Erie Canal, Ganargua Creek, and Red Creek all define drainage on the village's buildable land, and the canal prism triggers NYS Canal Corp review for any adjacent earthwork. Commercial site work in Palmyra regularly involves cobble-heavy trenching in the Palmyra outwash, structural fill on the clay-loam flats, and dewatering on canal-adjacent parcels where shallow groundwater is common. Stormwater design ties into the Ganargua / Clyde / Seneca River watershed. Shallow dolostone bedrock can appear on the higher drumlin summits. Frost depth is moderate, reflecting the lake-moderated western Wayne climate. Projects near the canal also have to coordinate grading with the NYS Canal Corp maintenance easement. Structural fill is common on the low-lying clay-loam parcels.