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.?ÿ
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.?ÿ
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.?ÿ?ÿ
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.?ÿ
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.?ÿ
Have seen similar crap work associated with cell towers and similar one and done type jobs where it was incredibly clear no real research was carried out before having a crew show up for a few hours to drive stakes willynilly based on the theory that original PLSS work was one hundred percent accurate across a township.?ÿ Find a corner or two or three somewhere in the township and prorate precisely to arrive at a purely fictitious solution.
Found a cell tower one time with a description that commenced at the northwest corner of the section then took a certain bearing and distance to the POB.?ÿ The tower site was within the southeast quarter of the section only a couple hundred feet from the east section line where all four corners of that quarter section where monumented and the records filed.?ÿ Their survey provided no guidance as to the basis of bearings.
I've heard about a surveyor that does towers across a large multi-state area, $50 an hour.?ÿ
Pretty typical. Pipeline and power transmission easments are often done in the same way. It's like bad GIS technicians were given licences that only cover communications and utilities.?ÿ