You are correct is saying that you should not make assumptions and collect as much evidence as possible. Contacting the agency/utility would be a grea...
Derek,Contacting the utility is a great idea. Unfortunately, often time surveyors don't view an easement as "important" as the property boundary they ...
Back in the USBR heyday, surveys were very hit and miss for quality. Sometimes they had real surveyors and other times a couple of chain-men and an en...
> We've been had by what I view as a faithful puppet of a Bureaucrat and I want to puke.> judJust trying to spur discussion about an issue I am ...
> If this is a new subdivision why not just recenter the easement and vacate any of the original easement now? The power company would sign off on ...
Thanks, Peter.> What would condemnation have to do with it?In that case we usually go ahead and build the line and let the DOJ see the landowner in...
> There is no prescriptive rights. There is an easement that can by physically located on the ground. The monuments (power lines) control over th...
> This isn't really a question, is it?Believe it or not, yes. We have surveyors "telling us" were our easements are all the time. > The easement...
> So I'll just spit ball some thoughts.> > Yes, power company has the right to put the lines anywhere within the easement and fully use the w...
> Just some thoughts here. I am not an expert in how to correct this sort of problem.No problem - I appreciate the comments on how surveyors appro...
> I would show the client where the line is, and where the centerline of the easement description is, and ask him if that changes his mind as to wh...
> Corey> > "Proposed Centerline" indicates that the easement was acquired before the line was built, perhaps before the design was complete. ...
> We are working with you. The power line by your words was not built within the easement as described by the words, "to be" which indicates that t...
> > Lo and behold the power line is not centered in the easement as described.> > I guess I have to ask what "as described" means. Everyo...
> Is to be? Was it actually constructed there? The recorded deed document has much more authority than any construction plans. The Deed documents i...
> No GPS here. Old school survey techniques!Ah. I do use LGO for my conventional adjustments as well. Not free like you're looking for though. Goo...
Okay, I forgot to mention the description is a centerline description with construction stationing calling out "proposed centerline of power line", an...
Does not your GPS processing software (LGO, TGO, Topcon Tools etc.) have adjustment functions? Assuming you are needing it for GPS. Civil 3d has this ...
Huffington post? So let me guess, the snowstorm is being caused by the hateful rhetoric of the tea party? 😉
