My initial thought is that the conventional ground traverse likley contains most of the error, and its simply a coincidence that it matches the GPS gr...

I decided I should marry my then girlfriend at the end of a frozen windy winter's day spent performing a topo of an active landfill. I figured she mu...

> That is my SOP, contact the State Floodplain Manager, if she doesn't have an alternate source of BFE, I write a cover letter to the LOMA applicat...

> My experience (and my understanding after contacting FEMA) is similar to what John said. FEMA would like you to check with local authorities fir...

Look up FEMA's Guide # 265. It does a decent job of discussing the steps of obtaining and developing BFE's in a Zone A

I was going to start this same thread the other day after I had made 2 "repairs" on my sawmill. Sealed an air leak on the suction side of the fuel sys...

Not sure about the exact verbiage origination, but my understanding is that the concept was borne from common law, but was codified in the Act of Febr...

Can't be that "hot hot of a deadline" if you're spending time posting on Beerleg IMHO.

Reminds of the time I was asked to go help an older engineer with a safe routes to school project. He needed the street and adjacent properties topo'...

The photo on P. 9 of Foresight kind of says it all. Caption calls out "chisled crosses", whereas a knowledgable eye will recognize the 1/4 significan...

Depends.If this were in California, which I assume its not, then the answer would be clear as this and similar situations are fairly well codified in ...

This is a valuable lesson and discussion. Remember that the BFE is for a 1% chance flood. However, hydrology is not an exact science, even with empi...

It doesn't sound like you really have a diagram 5 building. You can't claim the 2 crawl space openings as being diagram 5 just for the openings, it mu...

> In this case the fence made a straight line between the road and the four-way fence corner at the Center. The N 1/4 and S 1/4, as well as the E ...

Good arguement but possibly rebuttable in some jurisdictions. I have often found fences which do not follow section lines and/or terminate at origina...

All I know is that tact is an amazing thing. The same thing can be said many ways. What can be said in a manner where it is taken constructively, can...

$700 !!!Time to put on our big boy pants and do away w/ the review.

for Duane and othersRankin,Simply to play devil's advocate:Is the submitting surveyor therefor allowed to submit substandard work in the expectation t...

Ding ding ding, we have a winnerThanks for your thoughts Duane.By the way, does your State require review and filing fees?