CA Land Surveyor case studies
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Licensure as a California Land Surveyor is granted by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists (BPELSG), the state body that regulates engineering, land surveying, and geology practice in California. The credential is intended for surveyors who take professional and legal responsibility for boundary determinations, geodetic work, subdivision mapping, and water-boundary questions, and it is generally pursued after substantial field and office experience under a licensed surveyor. The CA Land Surveyor case studies are 5 cases and about 3,355 words.
1The 1890 Sandstone and the 1965 Pipe: Weighing Conflicting Corner Evidence
You are retracing the west half of the northwest quarter of Section 14, MDB&M, in El Dorado County. The 1890 GLO plat calls 40.00 chains between the northwest corner of Section 14 and the quarter-section corner.
719 words, about 4 min2Ground Versus Grid: A Pipeline Staked from a Stale Base Map
Your firm is setting control for a 2,000-ft water pipeline in San Bernardino County, within CCS83 Zone 5. Two temporary points, CP-1 and CP-2, are observed by 45-minute static GNSS sessions and processed against three NGS CORS in the National Spatial Reference System, producing NAD83(2011) epoch 2010.00 coordinates.
590 words, about 3 min3A Ten-Foot Shift Between Two 1925 Lots
An owner holds two contiguous 50-ft by 120-ft lots, Lots 7 and 8 of a tract map recorded in 1925, in a city that now requires a 6,000-sq-ft minimum area and 55-ft minimum width. Lot 7 has a 1948 house; Lot 8 is vacant but carries the driveway that serves Lot 7.
680 words, about 3 min4A Levee Break, a Slow Bank, and 4.3 Acres
A 40-acre parcel in Sutter County is bounded on the south by the Feather River, a navigable waterway. The 1871 patent describes the south line as running "to the bank of the Feather River, thence down said river." Between 1955 and 1995 the south bank moved south, away from the parcel, about 65 ft; everyone agrees the movement was gradual and imperceptible.
697 words, about 3 min5A 1:17,500 Closure, a Perfect Pipe, and a 0.14-ft Conflict
Your six-sided closed traverse around a 12-acre parcel has a linear misclosure of 0.10 ft north and 0.10 ft east over a total length of 2,470.00 ft. The angular closure after six angles is 12 seconds.
669 words, about 3 min