Private roads, subdivision roads, access roads, and industrial road construction. Full earthwork from subgrade to finished surface. Serving Hannibal and all of Oswego County.
Backwell provides professional road construction services in Hannibal, Oswego County, and the surrounding area. Backwell builds roads that last. From private driveways and farm roads to subdivision streets and industrial access roads, we handle the complete earthwork scope, clearing, grubbing, subgrade preparation, base material installation, drainage, and final grading. We self-haul all aggregate and base materials with our own trucks, keeping your project on schedule and on budget.
Based in Constantia, NY, we are local to Oswego County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your road construction project in Hannibal, 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.
Hannibal lies in western Oswego County on the Lake Ontario lake plain, about six miles inland from the shoreline. The soils across the hamlet and the Route 3 and Route 104 commercial corridors are dominated by Sodus gravelly loam and Arkport fine sandy loam on the rolling drumlin-and-beach-ridge terrain, with Canandaigua silty clay loam and Lyons silt loam in the low, poorly drained swales between ridges.
Drainage flows northward through Sterling Creek and the Little Salmon River toward Lake Ontario, with relatively flat regional gradients and extensive agricultural tile drainage shaping the current landscape. Commercial excavation around Hannibal typically involves managing seasonal high water tables on the flats, trenching through stony, cobbly till on the drumlin crests, and stormwater design that accounts for the limited receiving capacity of small tributary streams. Bedrock is generally deep. Frost heave on the poorly drained silt loam soils is a routine design constraint for pavement, slab, and utility work. Projects along Route 104 often require structural fill importation and enhanced stormwater detention to meet Wayne-to-Oswego watershed standards.