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Our firm has the experience of five Professional Land Surveyors, four licensed in Nevada and one licensed in California.  Our team of licensed land surveying professionals has a strong and comprehensive background in northern Nevada and eastern California.  Several members have more than 25 years of land surveying experience.

All of our professional land surveyors have expertise in generation and review of final maps, parcel maps, reversion to acreage maps, amended maps, lot line adjustments, mergers and certificates of compliance. 

In addition to mapping services, our survey department handles a variety of surveying assignments, including the use of traditional survey and Global Positioning System (GPS) methods for construction staking, right-of-way surveys, horizontal and vertical control networks, and boundary surveying projects.  We have adopted advanced surveying technology, such as GPS, which affords us efficiencies in precisely locating reference points and establishing control networks.  Other surveying services include field topographic surveys, patent research of legal records for property lineage evidence and analysis of historical boundaries, hydrographic surveys, digital utility database mapping in AutoCAD or ArcMap (ArcView/Arc Info) GIS compatible formats, and LIDAR validation surveys.  Patent research includes the assembling of old notes and paper plats of surveys dating back to the initial transfer of land titles from the federal government forward to present-day ownership.  We routinely prepare legal descriptions, deeds, and exhibits for inclusion in boundary line adjustment and easement documentation. 

Having professional survey staff in-house is invaluable for completing projects in a timely and cost-effective manner.  Our surveying services regularly include coordination with company crews, outside consultants, and various governmental agencies.  We work closely with contractors to stake out elevations at top of pipe or inverts; provide stakes; stake offsets from back of curb, centerline, right-of-way, or property line.  Additionally, we provide as-built surveys during construction so that a precise database can be complied as required by many governmental agencies.

Kirkwood Power Line Extension – Sierra Nevada Crest, California

April 12, 2011 By ROA

R.O. Anderson was engaged to assist Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District (KMPUD) with a new 27.7-mile underground power line between the PG&E Salt Springs Reservoir hydro-generation facility and the KMPUD Blue Substation at Kirkwood Mountain Resort.  Located at the Sierra Nevada crest in the Alpine, Amador, and El Dorado counties of California, this project is significant to the entire Kirkwood region.  With high elevations, mountainous terrain, limited vehicular access, and a persistent late season snow with slow snowmelt, substantial challenges were presented for a survey project requiring significant fieldwork.

R.O. Anderson began by verifying the existing LiDAR control network on the California Coordinate System, using both GPS and traditional survey methods.  In addition to the control network, R.O. Anderson performed a comprehensive topographical survey for four distinct areas where the power line had been rerouted from the original proposal and contour data was unavailable.

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DCSID Utility Mapping Project – Zephyr Cove, Nevada

April 12, 2011 By ROA

In March 2009, the District retained R.O. Anderson’s survey department to accomplish the ongoing compilation of electronic data for the District’s utility mapping project for incorporation into a regional GIS database.  R.O. Anderson surveyors collected all available AutoCAD drawings, as well as hard copy record drawings of the District’s collection system, and organized them into a single AutoCAD compatible drawing file.  The survey crew then undertook the task to precisely locate all above ground infrastructure, manholes, valves, service lines, and lift stations using a GPS data collection receiver.  In areas where GPS did not yield such accuracies (e.g. heavy tree canopy, obscured sky, etc.) conventional surveying techniques were used to meet an identical accuracy standard for those locations.

R.O. Anderson recommended that the District’s need to acquire and maintain a precise database and mapping of existing infrastructure would be best served by hiring a consultant to provide colored aerial photography.  As such, R.O. Anderson coordinated the contract and services for aerial photography.

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Carson River LiDAR Validation – Douglas County, Nevada

April 12, 2011 By ROA

In 2004, a LIDAR topographic survey of the Carson River corridor was produced for Carson Water Subconservancy District (CWSD) by BAE Systems/Woolpert. The purpose of that survey was to develop topographic information for river restoration projects to be developed along the Carson River. Although the contractor provided an estimate of vertical accuracy of the resulting dataset, the number of points used for the assessment was limited (less than 20 points). In 2009, CWSD contracted with R.O. Anderson to perform a quality-assurance survey to determine whether the vertical accuracy was sufficient to comply with FEMA standards. Since completion of the Carson Valley LIDAR Validation, R.O. Anderson has been engaged by CWSD to perform a similar validation in Carson City and Lyon County.  This LIDAR Validation project spans over 80 miles and involves more than 10 different public entities.

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