Solar installation site clearing, grading, access road construction, and trenching for Central New York renewable energy projects. Serving Auburn and all of Cayuga County.
Backwell provides professional solar farm site prep services in Auburn, Cayuga County, and the surrounding area. Central New York is seeing a massive expansion of solar energy installations, and every one of them needs professional site preparation before a single panel goes up. Backwell provides the full scope of earthwork for solar farm developers, land clearing, grubbing, rough grading, access road construction, and conduit trenching. Our fleet and hauling capacity let us handle large-acreage solar projects efficiently.
Based in Constantia, NY, we are local to Cayuga County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your solar farm site prep project in Auburn, 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.
Auburn sits at the north end of Owasco Lake in Cayuga County, on a landscape shaped by retreating Laurentide ice. The dominant soils across the city's commercial corridors are Honeoye silt loam on upland till, with bands of Lima and Kendaia silt loams following low-relief swales. Closer to the Owasco Outlet and along the lakeshore, fine-textured Canandaigua silty clay loam and occasional Palmyra gravelly loam appear where post-glacial deltas built out.
Drainage considerations in Auburn are driven by that Owasco Outlet corridor, the Owasco Inlet valley to the south, and several small tributaries that cross the city grid before emptying into Seneca River drainage. Site work here often involves managing seasonal high water tables on the flatter clay-loam parcels, trenching through cobbly till on the uplands toward Route 5 and the NYS Thruway corridor, and engineering stormwater controls that meet both municipal MS4 standards and Finger Lakes watershed protection rules. Rock is generally shallow only on the higher drumlin crests.