Erosion control and slope stabilization for construction sites, waterways, and vulnerable properties in Central New York. Serving Utica and all of Oneida County.
Backwell provides professional erosion control services in Utica, Oneida 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 Oneida County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your erosion control project in Utica, 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.
Utica sits on the Mohawk River in central Oneida County, on terraces that climb from the river flats up onto the surrounding Appalachian Plateau. Native soils across the city's commercial and industrial corridors are a mix of Palmyra gravelly loam and Howard gravelly loam on the outwash terraces, Lamson very fine sandy loam on the river flats, and Mardin channery silt loam on the rising plateau ground south of town.
Hydrology is defined by the Mohawk River, the Erie Canal corridor (now the NYS Barge Canal), and a series of tributaries that cut down off the plateau, including Ballou Creek and Nail Creek, through the city grid. Commercial site work in Utica regularly involves variable historic fill in the urban core and former industrial parcels, dewatering on the river and canal flats, and stormwater design that ties into the Mohawk River watershed. NYS Canal Corp review applies adjacent to the canal prism. Shallow shale and limestone bedrock can appear on the plateau-edge parcels. Frost depth is substantial given the interior Mohawk Valley climate.