No wonder that looks familiar

A local water company asked me to survey a small tract they are looking to buy in order to make improvements to a pump station.?ÿ I met with a couple of folks from the water company.?ÿ They were really prepared, they had copies already made of information they had and handed to me - couple of deeds and a sketch prepared by a consulting engineering company showing what additional land they would need.?ÿ I briefly glanced at these as discussion began.

At first glance, the drawing looked very familiar so I assumed I had seen the engineering company plans on other projects.?ÿ Then we started discussing the project location and what needed to be done.?ÿ There was concern about an easement location.?ÿ I remembered working in the area and pulled up my drawing file to show them that the easement was actually on the neighbor (whose property I had surveyed).

I started to show them how they had purchased a small rectangle for the current pump station off of my prior client and had an easement for the line running along the property line out to the road.?ÿ That is when it hit me why the sketch their consulting engineers had developed looked so familiar - it was a photocopy or scan of a portion of the survey I had done for the neighbor with the addition of a little square drawn around the proposed new pump station tract.

Interestingly (to me and probably very few others), I have presented a course on ethics, standards, & code of conduct through KAPS for the past 5 years.?ÿ There is are specific sections that discuss how to properly use, modify, and attribute plans when an engineer alters/uses another engineer's plans, but nothing discusses the engineers use of the surveyor's product.?ÿ I would think at minimum notation of the source of the information should be included, even if only referring to where a recorded document is housed.