Tommorrow a committee will meet to discuss adding a catagory "Route Surveying" to the Standards of Practice for Boundary surveying in Louisiana. This would include but not be limited to pipeline and utility work. I am guessing most of the suggestions will deal with easement plats where you have to show all monumnets found and any reference drawings used. Another possible suggestions might be to monument the easement boundaries.
Do any you know and can link examples where other states include route survey standards in the mininum standards or standards of practice?
We don't do any of that oil 'n gas stuff here in Oregon, but I'd suggest looking at Louisiana DOT standards for a starting point. DOT surveying would be a form of route surveying.
Probably a list of what to include in the survey report, the required precision, the features to be tied and references to established corner monuments would be a start. The actual method used would be restrictive and would need to be changed soon anyway. The route surveying of old with a transit, deflection angles and a chain are gone. I have retraced some pipe for Gas companies, about 125 miles of it using a probe every 25 feet for depth, a metro tech for finding the pipe and a total station offset from the line using side shots for location and trig levels, with a traverse point ahead. GPS would be the tool of choice today. Those jobs were a type of route surveying and the contract called for what was required and the precision, not method. Maybe route surveying standards do not belong in a standards of practice manual at all. Have done some route work for phone companies where we used an existing line of some sort, a chain and offsets. Rough but provided the data needed. These jobs each have their own goal, that and the precision are determined by the clients.
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