Private roads, subdivision roads, access roads, and industrial road construction. Full earthwork from subgrade to finished surface. Serving Oneida and all of Madison County.
Backwell provides professional road construction services in Oneida, Madison 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 Madison County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your road construction project in Oneida, 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.
Oneida sits in north-central Madison County on the transition between the Glacial Lake Iroquois lake plain to the north and the rolling drumlin-plateau country to the south. Soils across the city's commercial corridors are a mix of Palmyra gravelly loam and Howard gravelly loam on the outwash terraces along Oneida Creek, Honeoye silt loam on the drumlin flanks, and Minoa and Lamson fine sandy loams on the lake-plain flats extending toward Oneida Lake.
Oneida Creek and its tributaries drain north into Oneida Lake, and the city's proximity to both the lake and the Erie Canal corridor controls much of the grading and stormwater regime on commercial parcels. Site work here regularly involves dewatering on the lake-plain flats, cobbly trenching on the drumlin flanks, and structural fill importation where native fines cannot carry commercial pavement. Stormwater permitting ties into the Oneida Lake watershed, which imposes tighter phosphorus and sediment thresholds than most inland tributaries. Bedrock is deep across the city's buildable land.