Complete civil packages for utility solar near Remington, 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 Remington in Jasper County, Indiana. One contract covers clearing through final stabilization, with Backwell field leadership on site.
Sits at the I-65 and US 24 interchange, the single best heavy haul crossroads in this part of Indiana and the usual routing point for oversize loads coming from the Chicago and Lafayette directions. Wind farm construction in the surrounding area has already proven the truck routes.
Publicly reported utility-scale solar in and around Jasper 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.
Jasper County straddles two very different surfaces. North of a line through Wheatfield it is Kankakee Outwash Plain, sand and muck at 640 to 700 feet with the straightened Kankakee River on the boundary, carrying Plainfield, Ade and Morocco sands on the rises and Maumee, Gilford and Adrian muck in the flats. South and east of Rensselaer it becomes the Iroquois Till Plain, a flat loamy till surface with Rensselaer, Brookston, Drummer, Darroch and Odell soils, dark and high in organic matter, and Iroquois River and Carpenter Creek draining it. Both halves are wet by nature and both are drained by a dense grid of legal ditches and tile, with a seasonal high water table at or near the surface in the depressions.
Treat the county as two jobs. In the northern sand the grading is fast and cheap but subgrade has no cohesion, so haul roads, crane paths and laydown need geogrid and imported stone, and muck pockets get undercut or bridged. In the southern till the material is a silty clay loam that carries loads well when dry, holds water in the spring, and turns into a rutting problem under haul trucks within hours of rain, which pushes moisture conditioning, drying time and a real winter and spring shutdown allowance. Topsoil in the dark till soils is deep, so stripping volumes and stockpile footprints are larger than usual. Trenching hits shallow water table in both halves and hits tile constantly, so tile location, temporary reroute and permanent repair should be a scheduled line item, not a change order. Sediment basins and stable outfalls matter because everything discharges into county regulated drains.
Full detail on the Jasper County market is on the Jasper 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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