Professional land clearing for construction, agriculture, and development. Trees, brush, stumps, and debris removed efficiently. Serving Skaneateles and all of Cayuga County.
Backwell provides professional land clearing services in Skaneateles, Cayuga County, and the surrounding area. Whether you are clearing a wooded lot for a new home or opening up acreage for development, Backwell handles the full scope of land clearing. We remove trees, brush, stumps, and organic debris and either haul it off-site or process it on location. Our equipment handles everything from light brush to heavy timber, and our hauling fleet means we clear and remove in a single mobilization.
Based in Constantia, NY, we are local to Cayuga County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your land clearing project in Skaneateles, 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.
Skaneateles sits at the north end of Skaneateles Lake in southwestern Onondaga County, on classic Finger Lakes terrain with steep lakefront slopes falling to a narrow lake-head flat. Soils across the village and surrounding commercial parcels are dominated by Honeoye silt loam and Lansing silt loam on the uplands, with Mardin channery silt loam on the higher and steeper ground and Wayland silt loam in the lake-outlet floodplain.
Skaneateles Lake is the unfiltered drinking-water supply for the City of Syracuse, which imposes some of the strictest watershed-protection standards in New York on any earthwork in or near the watershed. Commercial site work in Skaneateles regularly involves enhanced stormwater treatment, erosion and sediment controls above standard NYSDEC requirements, and careful grading design on the lakefront slopes. Shallow shale and siltstone bedrock can appear on the steeper valley walls. Frost-susceptible silt loams and the watershed overlay push pavement, slab, and utility details well beyond typical Onondaga County commercial standards. Projects in the watershed must coordinate with the Skaneateles Lake Watershed Agricultural Program staff in addition to standard Onondaga County MS4 review.