Mass grading and fine grading services for residential and commercial projects. Proper drainage, building pads, and finish grades to spec. Serving Sodus and all of Wayne County.
Backwell provides professional grading services in Sodus, 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 Sodus, 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.
Sodus lies in northern Wayne County a few miles inland from the Lake Ontario shoreline at Sodus Bay, on the Finger Lakes drumlin field's northern edge. Soils across the village and surrounding parcels are dominated by Sodus gravelly loam, the series named for the town, and Ontario loam on the drumlin flanks, with Canandaigua silty clay loam and Lyons silt loam in the low ground between drumlins.
Drainage flows north through short tributaries and First Creek to Sodus Bay and Lake Ontario. Commercial site work in Sodus regularly involves cobble-heavy trenching on the drumlin crests, seasonal high water tables on the clay-loam flats, and stormwater design that accounts for proximity to the Lake Ontario coastal zone. NYSDEC coastal erosion review can apply on shorefront parcels. Bedrock is deep across the village's buildable land. Frost depth and freeze-thaw cycling are tempered by the lake proximity but still push utility burial and pavement details on most commercial projects. Structural fill and enhanced stormwater detention are common requirements on commercial parcels, and subsurface investigation is routine on any shorefront project.