An engineer reviewing a reservoir application (this being an existing stock reservoir that was never filed on) send some questions. The main one is that they show the reservoir in the NWNW 10 and I show it in the SWSW 3.
Looking on the quad it shows the reservoir just like I do. This is a dependent resurvey area, the monuments fit really well and the locations on the quad are right on top of mine. So I look at the GIS they are using and the section line is 300-400 feet north of where I make it.
That's some awful GIS, it isn't even close the real section line is a good 100' south of the south edge of the section corner is at this fence corner:
You should get to work revising your survey to match the GIS. 😉
No wonder it is off, they used a purple line.
Everyone knows that the red lines are correct...
Just curious, if you go to the National Map Viewer, under "Other Featured Data", you can turn on the layer "BLM Public land Survey System". What does that show after you navigate to your pond?
BLM has gone out and gathered resource grade GPS positions on many section corners and continually updated the PLSS layer. It is highly possible that the agency you are dealing with has not updated their PLSS layer to something more acceptable.
Nah, I don't even go there, I learned years ago that the BLM GIS was not up to my standards.
I do send them data however, to try and help them a bit.
They are really good to work with here, the surveyors anyway;-)
Good God I have been in meeting like this! It led me to drinking a lot of my single malt that night
The county gis sends me alot of work. I keep getting calls from land owners saying their neighbor is encroaching on to there property.:-D
Maybe "Nad", did it?
We were getting a lot of those calls for a few months last year. I believe the offender was identified and sent to the back room (away from public interface).
The straw that broke the camels back was interesting. A nice young lady called and asked me how to handle her neighbor. He had been to the City and was told how to 'find his lines'. The helpful City employee zoomed in and measured from the back of walk to the block corner. '15 inches over and measure 50 feet at a time. The rear corners are straight back. You can see from the picture the fences aren't right at all...'
I pulled out the MD as he was recounting this episode and found a half dozen pins in less than 10 minutes. By the time I called the City Mr. Neighbor had already been in and raised all heck. Shortly after the calls slowed to a trickle...
Some people, lots of them apparently, need to learn that bad advice is much worse than no advice.