I have many times encountered a survey situation, where I am retracing all, or part of another professional surveyor, and they survey ONLY the correct location of the river, at the points where their property lines intersect with said body of water. In between, it is goofy!
Their survey barley shows the river, except sort of generally.
A recent case, makes 2 acres difference.
A less recent case, makes 5 acres.
Improper ties to river centerline.
Why is it?
What is the prevailing philosophy, that says they don't "Really have to survey the river"?
Where is this coming from?
Thanks.
Nate
I would say it depends on what the purpose of the survey was. What were they contracted to do?
If the purpose is to obtain an accurate acreage as of the date of the survey, then yep, you'd better do whatever is reasonable and necessary to do that. However, if the purpose was to only find the lines where they intersected the river, then that is probably all that is required.
Rivers can be fun. I worked on survey instructions about a decade ago for a municipal entitlement, land to be conveyed from the State to a municipality, but it first had to be surveyed before it could be patented. One of the boundaries of the parent tract was a river, be it a small one and not navigable, but called for as the boundary in the original description. Here's the fun part, some enterprising beavers built a dam upstream and sent the river on a new course nearly a mile away. I'm most certain the surveyor would have tried to hold the original channel, but which one? There were several to choose from. The original description didn't actually meander the river, just made a call to it in a metes and bounds description. o.O
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Did you ever get a three year-old to sit still?
Although much, much slower, the same problem exists with surveying rivers. They just don't give a hoot about what you want.
Did you ever get a three year-old to sit still?
Laziness
Did you ever get a three year-old to sit still?
River Not Move. I post pics later, of the river.
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River Pics
This river has not moved much:
Of course we canoed it. That's how you can survey a river!!
