Parking lot excavation, grading, base preparation, and drainage for commercial and industrial properties. Serving Geneva and all of Seneca County.
Backwell provides professional parking lot construction services in Geneva, Seneca County, and the surrounding area. A parking lot takes abuse, heavy vehicles, freeze-thaw cycles, and constant water. Backwell builds parking lots that hold up by getting the foundation right. We handle complete earthwork including excavation, subgrade compaction, base installation, drainage infrastructure, and final grading.
Based in Constantia, NY, we are local to Seneca County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your parking lot construction project in Geneva, 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.
Geneva sits at the north end of Seneca Lake on the border between Ontario and Seneca counties, on terrain dominated by the Finger Lakes drumlin field. Soils along the city's commercial corridors are predominantly Honeoye silt loam and Lima silt loam on the drumlin flanks, with Ovid silt loam on the lower slopes and Canandaigua silty clay loam on the lakebed flats close to the Seneca Lake shoreline.
Drainage flows into Seneca Lake directly, one of the deepest lakes in the country, which means any earthwork near the shore falls under tighter watershed protection standards tied to the Seneca Lake watershed. Commercial site work in Geneva regularly deals with cobbly, stony till on the drumlin crests, perched water on the lower silt loam slopes, and trenching constraints in the fine-textured lakefront soils. The downtown grid sits on a mix of historic fill and native till, so subsurface characterization is routine on redevelopment parcels. Shallow bedrock shows up occasionally on the higher drumlin summits.