Complete underground utility installation — water, sewer, storm, electric, gas, and communications for new construction. Serving Syracuse and all of Onondaga County.
Backwell provides professional underground utilities services in Macedon, Wayne County, and the surrounding area. Backwell provides full underground utility installation for new developments, infrastructure replacement, and service extensions. We install water mains, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, electric and gas conduit, and communications ductwork. Our work includes all associated earthwork — trenching, bedding, pipe installation, structure placement, backfill, compaction, and surface restoration.
Based in Constantia, NY, we are local to Onondaga County and know the area, the soil conditions, the regulations, and the contractors. When you hire Backwell for your underground utilities project in Macedon, 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.
Macedon lies in western Wayne County along the Erie Canal, inside the Finger Lakes drumlin field east of Rochester. Soils across the town's commercial corridors along Route 31 and the NYS Thruway interchange are predominantly Honeoye silt loam and Lima silt loam on the drumlin flanks, with Palmyra gravelly loam on the outwash benches and Canandaigua silty clay loam and Wayland silt loam in the low ground along the canal and Mud Creek.
The Erie Canal and its feeder channels control drainage across the northern half of the town, and any earthwork inside or adjacent to the canal prism triggers NYS Canal Corp review. Commercial excavation in Macedon typically involves cobbly, stony trenching on the drumlins, structural fill importation on the clay-loam flats, and stormwater design tied to the Ganargua Creek and Genesee River watershed. Shallow bedrock appears only on the highest drumlin summits. Frost depth is moderate by regional standards, reflecting the transition between lake-moderated and interior climate zones.
Underground utility projects in Central New York typically run $30,000 to $600,000 depending on pipe diameter, burial depth, trench length, and pavement restoration requirements. Road crossing work and dewatering add cost on certain sites. We provide fixed-price bids after reviewing utility plans.
Underground utility work in Central New York most commonly involves water service installation, sanitary sewer laterals and mains, storm drainage systems, and electrical conduit ductbanks. Utility burial depths in the region run 5 to 6 feet for water mains to stay below the 42-to-48-inch frost depth common across Onondaga, Madison, and Oswego Counties.
We install water mains and service lines, sanitary sewer mains and laterals, storm sewer systems, force mains, electrical conduit ductbanks, and telecommunications conduit. We work on municipal, commercial, and industrial utility projects starting at $30,000.
Yes. We offer directional boring for road crossings, environmentally sensitive crossings, and areas where open-cut trenching would require extensive pavement restoration. Open-cut trenching is used where boring isn't practical or cost-effective.
Typical permits include building department utility permits, NYSDOT highway work permits for road crossings, DEC or Army Corps permits for stream crossings, and coordination with the local water authority or sewer district. We handle all permit applications and inspections as part of the project scope.
We initiate 811 Dig Safe locates for every project and follow New York's Industrial Code Rule 53 requirements for hand-digging within 24 inches of marked utilities. For complex utility corridors, we pull utility as-builts from the municipality before mobilizing.