Mass grading and fine grading services for residential and commercial projects. Proper drainage, building pads, and finish grades to spec. Serving Syracuse and all of Onondaga County.
Backwell provides professional grading services in Phoenix, Oswego 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 Onondaga County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your grading project in Phoenix, 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.
Phoenix sits on the Oswego River in southern Oswego County, on terraces stepped down from the surrounding lake plain. Soils across the village and the Route 264 commercial corridor are a mix of Colonie loamy sand and Elnora loamy fine sand on the sandy uplands, Palmyra gravelly loam on the river terraces, and Lamson very fine sandy loam on the lower river-edge parcels.
The Oswego River and its lock-and-dam infrastructure define base-level hydrology and much of the buildable land's grading regime. Commercial excavation in Phoenix regularly involves trench-wall shoring in non-cohesive sand, shallow groundwater and dewatering on the lower terraces, and stormwater design that ties into both the Oswego River and broader Lake Ontario watersheds. NYS Canal Corp review applies to any work within the Oswego Canal prism. Bedrock is generally deep through the village. Frost-susceptible sand and silt loams influence pavement and utility burial on most commercial parcels. Structural fill importation is common on the lower terraces, and subsurface investigation is routine before excavation on any canal-adjacent commercial project.