Mass grading and fine grading services for residential and commercial projects. Proper drainage, building pads, and finish grades to spec. Serving Lyons and all of Wayne County.
Backwell provides professional grading services in Lyons, Wayne 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 Wayne County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your grading project in Lyons, 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.
Lyons sits at the confluence of the Canandaigua Outlet, Ganargua Creek, and the Erie Canal in central Wayne County, on the western end of the Finger Lakes drumlin field. Soils across the village and surrounding parcels are dominated by Honeoye silt loam and Lima silt loam on the drumlin flanks, Palmyra gravelly loam on the outwash terraces, and Canandaigua silty clay loam and Lyons silt loam in the low-lying creek and canal corridors.
The Erie Canal is the defining hydrologic and infrastructure feature, and projects within or adjacent to the canal prism fall under NYS Canal Corp permitting. Commercial site work in Lyons regularly involves managing Clyde River backwater flood elevations, trenching through cobbly till on the drumlins, and dewatering on canal-adjacent parcels. Structural fill is often required where native silty clay loams cannot carry pavement or slab loading. Shallow dolostone and limestone bedrock can appear on the higher drumlin summits, but most commercial excavation stays comfortably above rock. Frost-susceptible silt loams push utility burial and pavement detail on most commercial parcels in and around the village.