Residential and commercial foundation excavation. Basement digs, crawl space excavation, slab prep, and footer trenching. Serving Clinton and all of Oneida County.
Backwell provides professional foundation excavation services in Clinton, Oneida County, and the surrounding area. The foundation is the most important part of any building, and it starts with a clean, properly excavated hole. Backwell provides precision foundation excavation for residential and commercial construction, full basements, crawl spaces, slab preparations, and footer trenching.
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 foundation excavation project in Clinton, 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.
Clinton sits in the Oriskany Creek valley in southwestern Oneida County, a landscape of low drumlins rising above a flat valley floor. The village and surrounding commercial parcels are underlain mostly by Honeoye and Lansing silt loams on calcareous till, with bands of Howard gravelly loam on the outwash terraces along Oriskany Creek and Alden silt loam in the poorly drained swales.
Oriskany Creek and its tributaries drain north into the Mohawk River, and the creek's floodplain defines significant portions of the buildable land between Clinton and Kirkland. Commercial site work in the Clinton area regularly involves culvert sizing on the many small tributaries, dealing with seasonally perched water on the silt loam uplands, and the occasional shallow limestone or dolostone outcrop along the higher ground toward Hamilton College. The legacy of historic hematite iron mining can also introduce disturbed subsurface conditions on older industrial parcels near the Franklin Springs corridor. Stormwater design ties into the Mohawk River watershed through Oriskany Creek. Frost depth is substantial given the valley's interior climate.