Professional land clearing for construction, agriculture, and development. Trees, brush, stumps, and debris removed efficiently. Serving Syracuse and all of Onondaga County.
Backwell provides professional land clearing services in Solvay, Onondaga 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 Onondaga County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your land clearing project in Solvay, 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.
Solvay occupies the west shore of Onondaga Lake in Onondaga County, on a landscape dominated by the legacy of the Solvay Process Company's soda ash wastebeds. Native soils across the village are predominantly Palmyra gravelly loam on the higher outwash benches and Lamson and Minoa fine sandy loams on the lowland flats, but historic industrial fill — including the characteristic white Solvay wastebed material — overlies a substantial fraction of the commercially zoned land.
Onondaga Creek and Ninemile Creek both discharge near the village, and the Onondaga Lake AOC cleanup program controls earthwork, dewatering, and soil-disposal permitting on a significant portion of the buildable land. Commercial site work in Solvay consistently involves subsurface characterization to define the extent of Solvay waste and historic industrial fill, engineered containment and soil-management plans, and stormwater design that ties into the Onondaga Lake watershed framework. Bedrock is deep. Groundwater chemistry issues are a recurring factor in utility and foundation design. Projects along Milton Avenue and the lakefront almost always require remediation-grade soil management plans and close coordination with the Onondaga Lake AOC program.