Parking lot excavation, grading, base preparation, and drainage for commercial and industrial properties. Serving Ovid and all of Seneca County.
Backwell provides professional parking lot construction services in Ovid, 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 Ovid, 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.
Ovid sits on the central plateau between Seneca and Cayuga lakes in Seneca County, on the narrow ridge of terrain that divides the two Finger Lakes watersheds. Soils across the village and surrounding agricultural-to-commercial parcels are predominantly Ovid silt loam, the series named for the town, along with Honeoye silt loam on the better-drained till, Lansing silt loam on the middle slopes, and Lima silt loam on the lower ground.
Drainage falls to both sides of the ridge through short, steep tributaries feeding Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake respectively. Commercial site work in Ovid regularly involves managing fragipan-restricted subsurface drainage across essentially all of the silt loam uplands, slope stability on the steeper western and eastern flanks of the ridge, and stormwater design that has to satisfy Finger Lakes watershed protection standards for either receiving lake. Shallow shale bedrock can appear on the highest ridge sections. Frost depth is moderate given the lake-moderated microclimate. Projects along Route 96 that climb toward Willard and toward Lodi routinely require rock excavation and slope stability engineering on the steeper ridge flanks.