Remote surveys
So I picked up a Record of Survey near one of my jobs. For about 1/2 of a 2000 ac ranch. The ROS is a new one and looked a bit odd. It showed the boundary and some layout for water use. The water portion was a skeleton at best and didn’t reference any allocation documents. I scratched my head a bit wondering what was the point.
An actual full blown water map and updated permit to better define the areas would probably be 1.5 or 2x the cost of doing the 1000ac boundary.
Anyway didn’t pay much more attention. Then got a city lot job in an area I hadn’t done anything since 1979. That 79 job was a sewer line and of course easements and property corner ties. I used that data and some of our city corner data base to hunt up block and lot corners and they all fit. Except for odd water guy who had just been in there and was 4′ off. He tried to prorate in the corners. I will say it was challenging, lots of scrap around, everywhere you listen for a corner you would dig up something not related to a monument. Without my data base it may have been very costly or impossible. Just by luck found the 4′ off corners since I was looking in different locations and sometimes 4′ is a long way. The original pipes were still in place and some caps that were buried under mounds of junk.
Anyway call him up and find out he isn’t here, works for a big company, lived in the state for a year and now resides two states distant, only signing for the local field crews. No wonder it was a struggle. We don’t get much of that here.
It did explain the “water map” without lots of experience and going through the gauntlet of permitting you would have no idea how much that entails.
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