Complete civil packages for utility solar near Mound Bayou, MS: 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 Mound Bayou in Bolivar County, Mississippi. One contract covers clearing through final stabilization, with Backwell field leadership on site.
On US 61 between Cleveland and Shelby, flat cropland on the meander ridge. Useful as a site access and workforce point rather than a supply base, since materials still come out of Cleveland or Memphis.
Publicly reported utility-scale solar in and around Bolivar 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.
Delta floor between the Mississippi River mainline levee on the west and the Big Sunflower basin on the east. The county soil survey mapped Bolivar in a handful of associations that still describe the ground accurately: Commerce-Robinsonville-Crevasse on the young natural levees near the river, Forestdale-Dundee-Bosket on the older meander ridges, Brittain-Pearson-Dexter on the sandier positions, and Dowling-Alligator-Sharkey in the backswamp basins, plus undifferentiated river alluvium in the batture inside the levee. Dowling is the wettest of the set, a deep clay occupying the lowest slackwater positions. Bogue Phalia and the Big Sunflower drain the eastern half, and everything west of the mainline levee floods.
Where you sit within the county matters more than anything else. The ridge soils, Dundee, Bosket and Dubbs, will carry equipment weeks earlier in the season than the Dowling, Alligator and Sharkey basins immediately adjacent, and the two can occur in the same field, so route internal haul roads along the ridge traces wherever the layout allows. Grubbing is minimal on cropland but old field ditches, irrigation risers and buried poly pipe are everywhere and have to be located before grading. Assume all stone is imported, either barged to Rosedale or trucked from the gravel pits in the bluff hills east of the county. Trench spoil in the clay basins will not backfill tight, so budget moisture conditioning or select backfill. Nothing west of the mainline levee should be treated as buildable without a levee board and Corps conversation first.
Full detail on the Bolivar County market is on the Bolivar 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. Yes. Commercial civil sitework in Mississippi requires a Commercial Certificate of Responsibility from the Mississippi State Board of Contractors. Mississippi law makes it unlawful to contract or subcontract any portion of a public or private construction project equal to or exceeding $50,000 unless the contractor or subcontractor was duly licensed by the Board as of the date bids were submitted, so the license must be in hand before bid day, not at award. Applicants file a CPA reviewed or audited financial statement and hold the classification that matches the scope, and out of state firms must also be registered with the Mississippi Secretary of State.
Construction stormwater. Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), Environmental Permits Division, issues the Large Construction Storm Water General Permit, permit number MSR10, covering construction that disturbs five or more acres. Coverage is obtained by filing a Large Construction Notice of Intent (LCNOI) at least 30 days before construction starts, with a Certificate of Good Standing from the Mississippi Secretary of State dated within the prior 12 months. The property owner and the prime contractor carry joint and several responsibility for compliance, which puts the SWPPP, inspections, and BMP maintenance squarely on the civil contractor on a solar site. Backwell carries the SWPPP scope, installs and maintains the controls, keeps the inspection log, and closes the permit out with final stabilization.
Prevailing wage. Federal Davis-Bacon prevailing wage and registered apprenticeship requirements apply through the Inflation Reduction Act to qualifying projects of 1 MW alternating current and larger when the owner claims the increased credit rate, so certified payroll and apprentice ratio tracking are standard on Mississippi utility-scale solar even on privately owned sites. Mississippi does not layer a state prevailing wage law on top of that for construction contracts, and it is a right to work state, so the wage determination that governs is the federal one written into the EPC contract. Contractors should confirm the specific wage determination and apprenticeship language in each solicitation rather than assuming none applies. 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 Mississippi 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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