I've got five wells to survey. The plats will be used for the easement deed. There is no defined width or length. Just a point. Anybody prepare a survey for a point before?
I've got a table showing the state plane coordinates, lat and long, offset distances to the parent tract boundary lines and then showing ties to monuments.
Feels a little weird not having a centerline description or a metes and bounds around an acreage.
Who picked these locations, did you use your divining rod, has it been reliable?
I would imagine that the location would be similar to that of an oil well and shown in relation to the boundaries of the property and to retraceable objects like roads and such.
😉
I have a similar problem with dolphins and piles in a large river. I used a diameter around the base, noted it " a parcel of property being 10.00 feet in diameter, the radius point of which is described as follows:", then used the bearing between section corners for a basis and came off at a right angle with a distance "to said radius point". I only used monuments of record with good corner histories and consulted the leaser to ascertain if this would work for them and they approved.
> I've got five wells to survey. The plats will be used for the easement deed. There is no defined width or length. Just a point. Anybody prepare a survey for a point before?
You're not surveying a point. You're describing a circular tract of land by the most obvious method: locating the center of the circle and specifying its radius. I've prepared more than a few descriptions of those Sanitary Control Easements and the real work is typically in the calls that demonstrate the shape and location of the tract upon which the well is located and the connecting calls that position the well/center of easement in relation to the boundaries of the parent tract, i.e. demonstrate that the land within the easement being created is entirely within that tract.
Andy, yes many of us have done that. Some get carried away with all kinds of fluff. Me, what I have done is locate the radius point to a fixed line with a bearing and distance tie. Whether the line is a section line, road centerline, or some property line is your call.
It just is fixed, monumented, unique and can be retraced.
The solution is obvious. The problem is that you did not set a monument at the point. You needed to construct a tripod sort of support system to hold a bar or other monument firmly in place directly above the point you determined. Shame on you for not setting a bar! 😉
Actually, it is just a point. The information requested for the legal document was the location of the well. No radius required.
The first survey I ever signed was a Sanitation Control Easement for a municipal water well. That was easy enough because it actually did encompass a given area.
I think I adequately defined the points. They are well tied into existing monuments and accessorized with shiny new coordinates. Just not something I have specifically done before so it is always nice to get feedback.
> I've got five wells to survey. The plats will be used for the easement deed. There is no defined width or length. Just a point. Anybody prepare a survey for a point before?
[...]
> Actually, it is just a point. The information requested for the legal document was the location of the well. No radius required.
I'll bite. What sort of an easement fits into a "point"? If math puzzler Martin Gardner were still alive, I'd suspect this was his handiwork. :>