Rock removal, ledge excavation, and rock breaking for construction projects in Central New York. Serving Clinton and all of Oneida County.
Backwell provides professional rock excavation services in Clinton, Oneida County, and the surrounding area. Central New York has plenty of rock just below the surface, and when your project hits it, you need a contractor who does not flinch. Backwell handles rock excavation using hydraulic breakers, ripping, and mechanical removal methods. We break, load, and haul rock to clear foundations, trenches, and building sites.
Based in Constantia, NY, we are local to Oneida County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your rock excavation project in Clinton, 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.
Clinton sits in the Oriskany Creek valley in southwestern Oneida County, a landscape of low drumlins rising above a flat valley floor. The village and surrounding commercial parcels are underlain mostly by Honeoye and Lansing silt loams on calcareous till, with bands of Howard gravelly loam on the outwash terraces along Oriskany Creek and Alden silt loam in the poorly drained swales.
Oriskany Creek and its tributaries drain north into the Mohawk River, and the creek's floodplain defines significant portions of the buildable land between Clinton and Kirkland. Commercial site work in the Clinton area regularly involves culvert sizing on the many small tributaries, dealing with seasonally perched water on the silt loam uplands, and the occasional shallow limestone or dolostone outcrop along the higher ground toward Hamilton College. The legacy of historic hematite iron mining can also introduce disturbed subsurface conditions on older industrial parcels near the Franklin Springs corridor. Stormwater design ties into the Mohawk River watershed through Oriskany Creek. Frost depth is substantial given the valley's interior climate.