Complete civil packages for utility solar near Poseyville, IN: clearing, mass grading, access roads, collection trenching, SWPPP, fencing, and substation civil.
Backwell contracts complete civil site work packages for utility solar EPCs building near Poseyville in Posey County, Indiana. One contract covers clearing through final stabilization, with Backwell field leadership on site.
Best interstate access in the county, at the I-64 interchange with SR 165, which makes it the natural laydown and trucking point for work anywhere in northern Posey. Surrounding ground is loess upland rather than bottom, so it stays workable earlier in the spring.
Publicly reported utility-scale solar in and around Posey County:
Project details come from public filings and reporting and are listed to show where the work is. Backwell is not affiliated with these projects or their developers.
Posey County occupies Indiana's southwest corner at the confluence of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers, and it is really two landscapes. The northern and eastern uplands are loess mantled ridges and dissected side slopes on the Wabash Lowland, with Alford and Iva silt loams on the flats and shoulders and Wheeling and Sciotoville on the older terraces. The western and southern half is a very large leveed bottomland: Haymond, Wakeland and Bonnie on the natural levees and better drained alluvium, then Petrolia, Zipp, McGary and Karnak in the slackwater basins, where Karnak is a heavy clay that behaves like pottery. Big Creek and the Black River ditch systems drain interior bottoms to pump stations and gravity gates in the levees, and interior ponding, not the river itself, is the usual water problem.
Loess uplands cut clean and stand nearly vertical while dry, then slump and gully as soon as they wet up, so temporary slopes need flatter benching than the soil looks like it needs and every disturbed loess face needs cover within days. The silts grade beautifully within a narrow moisture band and turn to unworkable soup a couple of points above optimum, which means moisture conditioning and disking time built into the mass grading schedule. In the bottoms, McGary, Zipp and Karnak clays are high plasticity, low bearing subgrades: access roads want lime or cement modification or a thick geogrid and stone section, and trench spoil will not flow back or compact without drying. Floodplain and levee district review governs pad elevations, culvert sizing and any crossing of a district ditch. Erosion control on loess should assume gullying, so use sediment basins with skimmers rather than relying on silt fence alone.
Full detail on the Posey County market is on the Posey County solar civil page.
We price the package as one scope under one contract, so the EPC has a single point of responsibility for the civil critical path instead of managing separate clearing, earthwork, and utility subcontracts.
Backwell superintendents, project managers, and lead operators run every site. We mobilize company equipment for the core scope and scale each project with leased production fleets, qualified regional subcontractors, and agency-placed field staff, all under Backwell supervision and a single contract.
Contractor licensing. Indiana does not issue a statewide general contractor or commercial building contractor license. Contractor licensing and registration is handled at the city and county level, so requirements vary by jurisdiction. Larger cities including Indianapolis, Evansville, Fort Wayne, and South Bend run their own contractor licensing or registration programs, generally requiring a fee, a contractor bond, general liability coverage, and workers compensation, with some jurisdictions also requiring an exam. Many rural solar host counties have no general contractor license at all, but a civil contractor should still expect county road use and haul route agreements, road maintenance bonds, county drainage board coordination on regulated drains and tile, and local building or improvement location permits. Verify the specific city or county requirement before mobilizing rather than assuming a state credential exists.
Construction stormwater. Construction Stormwater General Permit, known as the CSGP, issued by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, IDEM. It applies to construction activity disturbing one acre or more of total land area, and to smaller areas that are part of a larger common plan of development or sale. As of December 18, 2021 the CSGP replaced the prior program administered under 327 IAC 15-5, commonly called Rule 5. Coverage is obtained by filing a Notice of Intent, or NOI, with IDEM, supported by a stormwater pollution prevention plan. Local soil and water conservation districts and county or municipal MS4 programs typically review and inspect on IDEM's behalf, so a utility-scale solar site will usually deal with both IDEM and the county SWCD. Backwell carries the SWPPP scope, installs and maintains the controls, keeps the inspection log, and closes the permit out with final stabilization.
Prevailing wage. Indiana has no state prevailing wage law. The Indiana Common Construction Wage Act was repealed effective July 1, 2015, and the state has not replaced it, so there is no state level wage determination for public or private work. Federal Davis-Bacon prevailing wage still applies to federally funded work, and applies to utility-scale solar through the Inflation Reduction Act labor requirements: projects of 1 MW AC and larger must pay Davis-Bacon prevailing wages and meet registered apprenticeship ratios to claim the full value of the investment or production tax credit. In practice that means nearly every utility-scale solar project in Indiana is built on certified payroll with apprenticeship participation even though the state itself imposes nothing. Owners and EPCs will also often impose their own project labor agreements or workforce commitments on top of the federal requirement. For projects claiming the full ITC or PTC, Backwell produces Davis-Bacon certified payroll, pays the applicable wage determination, and supports apprenticeship labor-hour compliance.
All Indiana solar civil work or the national utility solar civil page.
Send plans, a scope of work, and the schedule through the form below or call (315) 400-2654. We review the civil package, walk the site if it is at that stage, and return a scoped proposal with a schedule of values, stated fill allowances, and unit rates for overages. A one-page capability statement is available for prequalification files.
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