Complete civil packages for utility solar near Coyanosa, TX: 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 Coyanosa in Pecos County, Texas. One contract covers clearing through final stabilization, with Backwell field leadership on site.
Irrigated farming community northwest of Fort Stockton on the Pecos valley side of the county, in the middle of the wind and solar development belt reached off US 285 and FM roads.
Publicly reported utility-scale solar in and around Pecos 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.
Pecos County covers a large piece of the Trans Pecos, running from the Permian Basin plains near Fort Stockton south onto the Stockton Plateau limestone country toward the Pecos River canyon. Uplands carry shallow to moderately deep calcareous soils over caliche and limestone, including Reagan and Hoban silty clay loams on the basin floors, Upton soils with petrocalcic caliche pans close to the surface, and shallow stony Lozier and Ector soils on the plateau and hill slopes. Basin fill and old alluvial fans hold Toyah soils, and irrigated valleys near Fort Stockton and Coyanosa have deeper alluvium. Drainage is ephemeral: broad draws and arroyos that carry nothing for months and then run hard, with the Pecos River cutting the east side of the county.
Clearing is creosote, mesquite, tarbush and cactus, low volume but with deep taproots and abundant rock, so grubbing produces rock and root mixed spoil rather than clean organic. The controlling issue is caliche and shallow limestone: mass grading and trenching often need rippers, hammers, rock trenchers or blasting, and pier and pile installation should be priced with rock refusal in mind. On the good side, the same caliche makes excellent local base material and haul roads that hold up in dry weather with minimal treatment. Design access road drainage for flash flow at arroyo crossings, since the storm events that matter arrive as short high intensity cells. Erosion control is difficult because revegetation in this rainfall regime is slow and unreliable, so lean on rock lined channels, check dams, armoring and dust control rather than seeding alone. Gypsum and salt bearing zones near the Pecos warrant a corrosivity and sulfate check before concrete and buried metal decisions.
Full detail on the Pecos County market is on the Pecos 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. Texas does not issue a statewide general contractor or general engineering contractor license, so commercial civil sitework requires no state contractor license. Licensing in Texas is trade specific: electrical work is licensed by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, plumbing by the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners, and sealed design work requires a Texas Professional Engineer registered with the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Cities and counties can require their own contractor registration, bonds and permits, so registration is handled jurisdiction by jurisdiction. Out of state contractors register with the Texas Secretary of State to transact business and should confirm Texas Comptroller franchise tax standing.
Construction stormwater. Construction stormwater in Texas is permitted under the TPDES Construction General Permit, number TXR150000, issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Utility-scale solar sites disturbing five acres or more are large construction activity and require a Notice of Intent, a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan, a posted site notice and a Notice of Termination at completion. Sites between one and five acres are small construction activity with a site notice and SWPPP. TCEQ is the delegated permitting authority in Texas, not EPA Region 6. 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 apprenticeship requirements apply through the Inflation Reduction Act to solar facilities of 1 MW AC and larger that claim the full investment or production tax credit, which covers essentially every project on this list. That means Davis-Bacon rates for the county, weekly certified payroll, and qualified apprentice labor hour percentages flowed down to subcontractors. Texas has no state prevailing wage law that reaches privately owned solar projects. Texas Government Code Chapter 2258 requires prevailing wage only on public works contracts let by the state or a political subdivision, with rates set by the awarding public body, so it does not apply to private utility-scale solar. In practice the IRA requirements are the operative wage and recordkeeping driver on Texas solar. 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 Texas 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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