Surveying and Field Services for the Illinois Dept. of Transportation

Overview

Robinson provided field and office professional land surveying services necessary to prepare plat of highways and legal descriptions for land acquisition of approximately 16,150 lineal feet of roadway consisting of approximately 70 parcels of land.

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Scope

• Performed a detailed primary control survey using Global Positioning System (GPS) and conventional survey methods to establish the position of both random survey control points and existing survey monuments

• Reviewed existing right-of-way documents and provided detailed calculations utilizing the position of established monuments in conjunction with the exiting right of way documents to determine the position

• Reviewed commitments for title insurance 

• Determined further calculations using the record documents and data collected pertaining to existing monuments

• Established the existing right of way, parcel lines, and proposed right of way calculations based upon the necessary engineering requirements

• Generated plats of highway as a compilation of existing right of way, existing parcel lines and proposed right of way requirements

• Composed legal descriptions based upon the position of the proposed right of way relative to the existing right of way and existing parcel lines

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