Additional topo work which the engineer insisted on because he said the ground needed to be restored as closely as possible to the original terrain... probably less than one cubic yard of material in a fairly rural area.
I was involved in an "ungrading plan" for the rowing venue at Lake Casitas near Los Angeles after the 1984 Olympics. The site was restored to its pre-event condition ...
When I surveyed and monumented a small triangle of land....I could literally touch all three corners as they were that close together. The landowners wanted to clear and convey title to that little triangle of land across the road from where the titleholder owned and lived. He had an old deed where an old, narrow highway pass through one corner. The new highway got a 100-foot wide swath of land, but left that little corner. He did not want it, and the neighbor said that he would take it. No problems. "Said parcel of land contains X square feet of area." Can't remember exactly. It was a single digit number.
Today, I advised an old client who wanted to convey all the land he owned across the road from where his house was sitting. I suggested the deed wording "...all that part of Deed Book and Page Number lying and being on the West side of County Road, containing X.X acres, more or less." If he can get the mortgage company to release that part of his land using that for a description, then there will not be a great need for a survey.
Landowner wanted some ATV trespassers charged. It was near a county line and neither county sheriff would act as they didn't know (or didn't want to know) whether it was in their county. Was hired to locate the spot and determine which county. The county line was not very well defined other than it was along the top of the ridge line. As it turned out the ÛÏspotÛ was about 300 feet down off the ridge line so not that hard to say which county it was in. Not sure how it came out after that.
Anyone ever have to lay out a line of cookie ovens? The crew that laid them out uses a laser to make sure they are straight, but the foreman wanted us to mark the floor with a marker at 5' o/s so he could stretch a tape to double check them.
