A mousepad sent to us from the District of Columbia Association of Land Surveyors.<\/p>\n
Rewritten here for easier reading:<\/p>\n
“DC’s ‘Surveying Commandments’<\/strong><\/p>\n Survey the Boundary RIGHT!<\/strong><\/p>\n — Do it the ‘DC Way’ —<\/strong><\/p>\n I<\/strong> – Use boundary data from DC Surveyors Office ONLY<\/u>.<\/span><\/p>\n II<\/strong> – Survey each Square as an “ISLAND”, alone unto itself.<\/span><\/p>\n III<\/strong> – Set up the STREET LINES – set up the STREET LINES!<\/span><\/p>\n IV<\/strong> – Reestablish DC’s PARALLEL OFFSET LINES in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n V<\/strong> – Work from BUILDING CALLS and other DCSO points that check.<\/span><\/p>\n VI<\/strong> – Use ‘SURVEY BUILDINGS’ and o ther ORIGINAL MONUMENTS as highest evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n VII<\/strong> – Hold DCSO’s OBSERVED ANGLES over most distances.<\/span><\/p>\n VIII<\/strong> – PRORATE per District law, between verified monuments within subdivided Squares.<\/span><\/p>\n IX<\/strong> – Remember – ‘Record’ bearings & distances seldom match actual ‘MEASURED’ property lines in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n X<\/strong> – Be alert to EXCEPTIONS<\/u>. They can sink your project!<\/span><\/p>\n And always observe the “ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT”… When in doubt, ask the DC SURVEYOR’S OFFICE.<\/span><\/p>\n NOTE – A DC License is required to practice land surveying and establish property lines in the District of Columbia.<\/span><\/p>\n The District of Columbia Association of Land Surveyors, Inc.”<\/span><\/p>\n For more information, visit their website at www.DCALS.org. Every Land Surveyor and Civil Engineer practicing in the District should have a copy of their 400 page comprehensive manual to know the history and rules behind surveying in Washington DC. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A mousepad sent to us from the District of Columbia Association of Land Surveyors. Rewritten here for easier reading: “DC’s ‘Surveying Commandments’ Survey the Boundary RIGHT! — Do it the ‘DC Way’ — I – Use boundary data from DC Surveyors Office ONLY. II – Survey each Square as an “ISLAND”, alone unto itself. III […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,56],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demarrengineering.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demarrengineering.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demarrengineering.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demarrengineering.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demarrengineering.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.demarrengineering.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.demarrengineering.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demarrengineering.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demarrengineering.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demarrengineering.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demarrengineering.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}