Residential and commercial foundation excavation. Basement digs, crawl space excavation, slab prep, and footer trenching. Serving Syracuse and all of Onondaga County.
Backwell provides professional foundation excavation services in Marcellus, Onondaga 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 Onondaga County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your foundation excavation project in Marcellus, 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.
Marcellus occupies the Ninemile Creek valley in southwestern Onondaga County, where the creek drops off the Appalachian Plateau toward the Onondaga lowland through a deeply cut gorge. Upland soils are predominantly Honeoye silt loam and Mardin channery silt loam, with Lordstown channery silt loam on the steeper plateau slopes and Palmyra gravelly loam on the outwash benches along the creek.
Ninemile Creek drains north into Onondaga Lake, and its downstream remediation work imposes additional permitting and monitoring requirements on earthwork that affects the creek corridor. Commercial site work in Marcellus regularly involves shallow shale and siltstone bedrock on the plateau-edge parcels, steep-cut stabilization along the gorge walls, and fragipan-driven perched water on the higher silt loam uplands. Stormwater permitting ties into the Onondaga Lake watershed. Frost depth and slope stability both push detail on pavement, utility, and culvert work in and around the village. Projects in the creek corridor routinely require coordination with the Ninemile Creek remediation program. Subsurface investigation is commonly required before grading plans are finalized on plateau-edge parcels.