Commercial grading and drainage contractor serving New York. GPS-guided grading, landscape grading, storm drainage, yard drainage for commercial, industrial, and solar construction across NY.
Backwell provides full grading and drainage services across New York , commercial grading, landscape grading, yard drainage, storm drainage, commercial site drainage, and the kind of integrated grading and drainage work that holds up over the life of a building. Most contractors will sell you grading OR drainage. Backwell sells them together because that is how the ground actually works. Get the grade wrong and the drainage cannot work no matter how much pipe you put in. Get the drainage wrong and the grade lines will fail the first time you get a heavy rain. Integrated grading and drainage services are the Backwell specialty.
Our grading and drainage scope runs from landscape grading and drainage contractors near me work on commercial properties, through full commercial site grading with engineered stormwater infrastructure, through utility-scale solar farm grading with 500+ acres of earthwork and permanent detention basin construction. Every project gets the same discipline: survey the existing conditions, grade to engineered design, install drainage infrastructure to handle the design storm event, restore the surface, and walk the site with the owner before demobilizing.
Commercial grading in New York is a tighter tolerance discipline than residential grading. Commercial pads need finish grades within +/- 0.10 foot. Commercial parking lots need engineered subgrades for the pavement section. Stormwater drainage has to hit every catch basin and storm structure at the correct invert elevation. Backwell runs GPS-guided dozers and grade-control equipment because eyeball grading on commercial projects is a recipe for rework.
Drainage is what keeps the grading work functional once the project is built. Backwell handles commercial drainage for commercial buildings, industrial sites, parking lots, subdivisions, solar farms, and municipal infrastructure projects across New York. For engineered storm sewer mainline, detention basins, and SWPPP-heavy work, see our storm drainage page; for crop-field and solar subsurface tile, see our farm drainage services. Typical cost ranges for each are broken out in our drainage installation cost guide.
We get called in on a lot of yard grading for drainage projects on high-end commercial properties, condominium developments, and institutional sites where standing water has become a chronic problem. The fix is almost never "just regrade the lawn." It is a combination of re-establishing surface drainage patterns, installing subsurface drainage where the water is, protecting existing utilities and landscape features, and restoring the surface with seed or sod that will actually grow. Backwell handles the full scope including pre-sod soil preparation, site grading to proper drainage slopes, and native seed establishment.
For larger commercial landscape grading and drainage projects , corporate campuses, apartment complexes, HOA common areas, institutional grounds , Backwell coordinates with landscape architects, civil engineers, and property managers on the full scope from rough grading through sod or seed establishment. We bring GPS-guided grade control so the finish grade actually matches the landscape design drawings, not a rough approximation.
Backwell is based in Constantia, NY and works across Syracuse, Auburn, Rome, Utica, Oswego, Fulton, Oneida, Cortland, Cazenovia, Liverpool, Baldwinsville, Cicero, DeWitt, East Syracuse, Camillus, Manlius, Fayetteville, Skaneateles, Geneva, Seneca Falls, Newark, Lyons, Palmyra, Sodus, Waterloo, and the rest of Central and Upstate New York. For larger commercial grading and drainage contracts, we mobilize further into New York State.
Commercial grading in New York typically runs $1.00 to $4.50+ per square foot. Drainage costs depend on pipe size, depth, structure count, and tie-in complexity. Small yard drainage projects run $3,000 to $15,000. Commercial site drainage runs $25,000 to $250,000+. Free itemized estimates.
Yes , integrated grading and drainage is our specialty. Backwell will survey, grade, install drainage infrastructure, and restore the surface as one coordinated scope.
Yes. Commercial landscape grading and drainage for corporate campuses, apartment complexes, condominium developments, institutional grounds, and HOA common areas , coordinated with landscape architects and civil engineers.
Yes. Broken, collapsed, or plugged drainage systems are a Backwell specialty. See our commercial drain tile repair page.
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