by an emergency project.
This week I am getting back to surveying the existing centerline of a couple of miles of gravel road on a property we are acquiring excepting therefrom a strip for the road.
We decided to describe the centerline of the road so in 40 years when it slips out they will know where it was located. There is too much canopy for effective GPS or aerial photo scaling.
Time to bring out the old spline curve.....
Don't do like the guy who surveyed my M-I-L's land. He eyeballed the curve in the road and set pins. Problem is, I can find PC and PT pins about a foot sideways and several feet along the road to match a recorded road realignment easement he apparently didn't research.
This is a road which has a FERC alignment which is not even close to where the road really is. It is all on the current owner's land and we are describing it's actual current location for the purpose of excepting it from our acquisition.
I suspect the FERC alignment came from design or notes from the 1930s when the road was built but the road was not built exactly where the FERC alignment indicates. This is typical of mountain roads of that period; the Engineers actually built them in the field in the best alignment as they went.
There aren't any rebars or monuments or anything like that other than the road itself.
Seeing as how this is a 'gubmit' project you should place bars at half-meter intervals along the entire route. Then provide references for each bar.
Bill93,
That sounds like a competency issue that should be brought up to the licensing board.
Interesting.
Ryan.