My Patience Is Wearing Thin
A client forwarded this question today from the surveyor on a construction project for which I prepared the pre-design topo:
We need to know what is meant specifically by the description ??monument well.? Is it the top of the monument well lid that was tied in? Or, was the monument well opened and the monument inside tied in. We need to know which of these two scenarios is correct so that we do not provide bad vertical data on the construction stakes.
The site is on a large university campus that has a fairly robust survey control network referenced to NAD83/NAVD88. My topo listed 3 campus control points with 3D SPC coordinates. The descriptions are those provided by the university system. The site is largely existing hardscape with abundant site elevations shown on the topo. I thought that any minimally-competent surveyor could determine the answer to this question in a matter of minutes with one or two check shots, but maybe I’m expecting too much.
A few days ago I got the question “Where are these points located?,” and I answered that without snarky reference to the fact that anyone looking at the plans or equipped with a functional RTK system ought to be able to walk right up to them.
I can’t imagine what the next question is going to be.
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