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@holy-cow It's a bit of a niche business lately. Doing investigation surveys or reports for our long time clients. I refuse to do them for unknown b...
@skeeter1996 1970 subdivision probably means the surveyor did not have an EDM. This was a transit chain survey laid out like most of those surveys w...
@holy-cow I wouldn't ever do that. However, I did give them an estimate of the job and we're going a different direction (a more realistic survey fo...
That being said there are a few things to remember. The vast majority of violations I discovered were handled with a phone call or office visit. Appro...
@olemanriver Yes, my bad, a typo, should have been NGVD29. Many newer dams would be based on NGVD29 because of local FEMA maps still not being updat...
Assuming the project has been completed, areas have been purchased for the dam, topo is done and the dam is designed, then this is your task: They ar...
If you go to the board over this I'm not sure what you would accomplish. The other surveyor has a different opinion where the corner is. If it truly w...
@rover83 Montana is a recording state.
@norman-oklahoma Been watching it happen locally. Curb and gutter controlled by a robot, no stakes. Entire subdivisions built using machine control....
@samthesurveyor It's a 1977 platted subdivision, there's a chain of title associated with the subdivision boundary that I'm very familiar with. And ...
@jitterboogie It's irrelevant here.
In this case I believe the diplomacy will be: How quickly do you want to get rid of this property?
Very similar to the checks I did a couple of weeks ago for two sites. My conditions were better than yours I'm assuming. One project has some timber, ...
@dougie Can't be said better than that.
@svengayle I think it's great, my wife was a long time teacher, taught from kindergarten to college. She retired when COVID hit but she still does a...
