Solar installation site clearing, grading, access road construction, and trenching for Central New York renewable energy projects. Serving Utica and all of Oneida County.
Backwell provides professional solar farm site prep services in Utica, Oneida 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 Oneida 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 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.