Mass grading and fine grading services for residential and commercial projects. Proper drainage, building pads, and finish grades to spec. Serving Clinton and all of Oneida County.
Backwell provides professional grading services in Clinton, Oneida County, and the surrounding area. Proper grading is the foundation of every successful project. Get it wrong and you are dealing with drainage problems, settling, and costly rework for years. Backwell provides both mass grading for large-scale earthmoving operations and precision fine grading for final surfaces. Our dozer and GPS-guided equipment deliver accurate grades that meet engineering specifications the first time.
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 grading 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.