Parking lot excavation, grading, base preparation, and drainage for commercial and industrial properties. Serving Syracuse and all of Onondaga County.
Backwell provides professional parking lot construction services in Sherrill, Oneida 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 Onondaga County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your parking lot construction project in Sherrill, 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.
Sherrill occupies a compact footprint on the Oneida County lake plain just north of Oneida, on terrain shaped by Glacial Lake Iroquois and the adjacent drumlin field. Soils across the city are dominated by Palmyra gravelly loam and Howard gravelly loam on the slightly higher outwash benches, with Honeoye silt loam on the drumlin flanks and Lamson and Minoa fine sandy loams in the lower swales.
Drainage flows west and north through Oneida Creek and Sconondoa Creek tributaries toward Oneida Lake. Commercial site work in Sherrill regularly involves cobbly, stony trenching in the outwash, seasonal high water tables on the flatter parcels, and stormwater design that ties into the Oneida Lake watershed framework with its tighter phosphorus and sediment thresholds. Bedrock is deep across the city's buildable land. Frost depth and frost-susceptibility of the fine-textured soils push utility burial and pavement details on most commercial projects, and structural fill is commonly required on the lower-lying commercial and industrial parcels. Projects along the Route 5 corridor through Kenwood and Sherrill routinely require subsurface investigation before finalizing grading and utility plans, and stormwater design typically emphasizes detention over infiltration on the fine-textured parcels.