Water main and sewer line installation, replacement, and repair for new construction and infrastructure projects. Serving Syracuse and all of Onondaga County.
Backwell provides professional water & sewer installation services in Solvay, Onondaga County, and the surrounding area. Backwell installs water mains, sewer lines, and associated infrastructure for new construction and replacement projects. Our excavators and crews handle mainline installation, service connections, manholes, hydrants, and all associated earthwork. We work with municipalities, developers, and general contractors on projects ranging from single residential connections to subdivision-wide utility infrastructure.
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 water & sewer installation project in Solvay, 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.
Solvay occupies the west shore of Onondaga Lake in Onondaga County, on a landscape dominated by the legacy of the Solvay Process Company's soda ash wastebeds. Native soils across the village are predominantly Palmyra gravelly loam on the higher outwash benches and Lamson and Minoa fine sandy loams on the lowland flats, but historic industrial fill — including the characteristic white Solvay wastebed material — overlies a substantial fraction of the commercially zoned land.
Onondaga Creek and Ninemile Creek both discharge near the village, and the Onondaga Lake AOC cleanup program controls earthwork, dewatering, and soil-disposal permitting on a significant portion of the buildable land. Commercial site work in Solvay consistently involves subsurface characterization to define the extent of Solvay waste and historic industrial fill, engineered containment and soil-management plans, and stormwater design that ties into the Onondaga Lake watershed framework. Bedrock is deep. Groundwater chemistry issues are a recurring factor in utility and foundation design. Projects along Milton Avenue and the lakefront almost always require remediation-grade soil management plans and close coordination with the Onondaga Lake AOC program.