Commercial and municipal snow removal services. Heavy equipment snow pushing and lot clearing for Central New York winters. Serving Utica and all of Oneida County.
Backwell provides professional snow removal services in Utica, Oneida County, and the surrounding area. CNY winters are no joke, and commercial properties need reliable snow removal to stay operational. Backwell provides commercial-grade snow pushing and removal using our heavy equipment fleet. We clear large commercial lots, industrial facilities, and municipal areas quickly and completely.
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 snow removal project in Utica, 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.
Utica sits on the Mohawk River in central Oneida County, on terraces that climb from the river flats up onto the surrounding Appalachian Plateau. Native soils across the city's commercial and industrial corridors are a mix of Palmyra gravelly loam and Howard gravelly loam on the outwash terraces, Lamson very fine sandy loam on the river flats, and Mardin channery silt loam on the rising plateau ground south of town.
Hydrology is defined by the Mohawk River, the Erie Canal corridor (now the NYS Barge Canal), and a series of tributaries that cut down off the plateau, including Ballou Creek and Nail Creek, through the city grid. Commercial site work in Utica regularly involves variable historic fill in the urban core and former industrial parcels, dewatering on the river and canal flats, and stormwater design that ties into the Mohawk River watershed. NYS Canal Corp review applies adjacent to the canal prism. Shallow shale and limestone bedrock can appear on the plateau-edge parcels. Frost depth is substantial given the interior Mohawk Valley climate.