Stormwater management systems, storm drain installation, culverts, and drainage solutions for Central New York. Serving Ovid and all of Seneca County.
Backwell provides professional storm drainage services in Ovid, Seneca County, and the surrounding area. Central New York gets serious precipitation, and poor drainage destroys properties. Backwell designs and installs stormwater management systems that handle the volume and protect your investment. From simple yard drainage and French drains to full storm sewer systems, culvert installations, and retention areas, we build drainage solutions that work in CNY conditions.
Based in Constantia, NY, we are local to Seneca County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your storm drainage project in Ovid, 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.
Ovid sits on the central plateau between Seneca and Cayuga lakes in Seneca County, on the narrow ridge of terrain that divides the two Finger Lakes watersheds. Soils across the village and surrounding agricultural-to-commercial parcels are predominantly Ovid silt loam, the series named for the town, along with Honeoye silt loam on the better-drained till, Lansing silt loam on the middle slopes, and Lima silt loam on the lower ground.
Drainage falls to both sides of the ridge through short, steep tributaries feeding Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake respectively. Commercial site work in Ovid regularly involves managing fragipan-restricted subsurface drainage across essentially all of the silt loam uplands, slope stability on the steeper western and eastern flanks of the ridge, and stormwater design that has to satisfy Finger Lakes watershed protection standards for either receiving lake. Shallow shale bedrock can appear on the highest ridge sections. Frost depth is moderate given the lake-moderated microclimate. Projects along Route 96 that climb toward Willard and toward Lodi routinely require rock excavation and slope stability engineering on the steeper ridge flanks.