PIN:

COUNTY:

ROUTE NO:

DESCRIPTION:

CHECK LIST COMPLETED BY:

FIRM OR REGION:

PRELIMINARY

Get copies of tax maps, owners’ names & addresses & phone numbers.

Get copies of deeds and plats.

Property owner contact letters written and mailed.

Railroad right-of-entry obtained.

Get quad maps.

Get old railroad ROW plans, if required.

Get copies of old highway plans.

Utility companies contacted for marking.

PLANIMETRIC

General:

Mainline survey length (also starting and ending points) correct.

Sideroads’ survey length (also starting and ending points) correct.

Project description.

Drawing scale.

North arrow, placed near the planimetrics area.

Ties to prior surveys.

Plot all field data.

Control:

Reference Datum noted (Horizontal & Vertical).

Control points table (Point #, North, East, Elevation, Station, Offset).

Survey tied at the beginning to existing log mile marker (if available).

Topo:

All topography located and labeled.

Septic tanks & field lines shown, or location noted, on tracts not served by a sanitary sewer.

Underground fuel tanks (size, owner ID #, facility #).

Historical features.

Environmental features.

Ground cover labeled.

Wells shown, or water source noted, on tracts not served by a public water utility company.

List the name & address of driller, date drilled, depth, property owner at the time of drilling.

Centerlines:

Alignment and Baseline Chains named descriptively, such as a road or stream name.

Stationing on the mainline is in the direction of increasing log mile. If no log mile is

available, stationing is south-to-north and west-to-east.

Stationing on sideroads left-to-right looking forward on the mainline, except for Interstates or

State Routes, which are stationed by their log mile direction.

Bearings on curve tangents agree with bearings on adjoining centerline tangent sections.

Centerlines shown.

Curve tangents, PI symbol, point circles.

Station tics shown correctly.

Full tics at 500’ stations.

Even 5 stations shown in figures.

Bearings.

Complete curve data.

Side roads' centerline intersection station equations.

Coordinates for all centerline PI's.

Coordinates for all centerline begin & end points.

Property:

Property lines.

Each tract shown in its entirety (where scale will allow).

Property lines’ metes & bounds.

If a centerline crosses a property line or curve, show station of

intersection and divide the property line or curve, and metes & bounds, in two.

Property owners’ names.

Property tracts numbered.

Use separate tract #'s if property is disconnected.

Tracts numbered consecutively from the beginning of the project, crisscrossing

the centerline as necessary.

Property overlaps and unclaimed property noted.

City, County, & State boundary lines.

All access to properties.

Present ROW & Easements:

Present ROW shown.

Present ROW labeled as such, along mainline and along sideroads.

Present ROW metes & bounds.

If a centerline crosses a present ROW line or curve, show station of

intersection and divide the ROW line or curve, and metes & bounds, in two.

Present easements shown.

Station/offset flags on present ROW (end & bend pts, curve points, property intersections).

Utilities:

All utilities shown (sizes & types).

Utility owners' list (names, addresses, contact person, and phone).

Limits of service shown when 2 utility owners supply the same service.

Utility easements.

Easements shown for any utility line outside the present R.O.W.

Elevations (top) of manholes, plus bottom and inverts for sanitary sewer manholes.

TVA towers & tower numbers.

Signal heads.

Major utilities shown (sizes & types).

Drainage:

Boundary lines shown completely for each area.

Drainage information blocks filled in for every area.

Copy of quad map used to mark boundary lines.

Size, type, & length of existing drainage structures.

Elevations (top, bottom, inverts) of catch basins and manholes.

Elevations (inverts) of pipes & boxes.

Floor elevations of buildings subject to flooding.

Wetlands (with areas).

RAILROAD SURVEYS

RR centerline geometry (labeled the same as a road centerline).

All topography within RR ROW for 600’ each direction.

RR centerline intersection station equations.

Distance to nearest mile marker, and the milepost number.

Profile of tops of each rail of railroad crossing.

Add the railroad company to the utility owners’ list.

BRIDGE SURVEYS

Stream baseline & flood plain section lines shown and labeled (like horizontal alignments).

Profile flood plain sections (plans scale) (show type vegetation and high water).

Profile of centerlines of existing roads, completely through the floodplain (show highwater).

Profile of stream bed, top-of-water, top-of-bank, (plans scale).

Sketch of existing bridge opening. (scale: 1”=10’ or 1”=20’)

Stream data block filled in.

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL & TIN

Mainline DTM length and width (also starting and ending points) correct.

Sideroads’ DTM length and width (also starting and ending points) correct.

Non-ground-surface points and points off project limits removed from DTM.

Break line crossings resolved.

Obscure areas within limits of project filled in.

Check for elevation errors (by contouring or rendering).

(w/aerial) DTM: densify around drainage structures and in ditches where needed

(w/aerial) DTM & Locate all pavement ties on mainline and sideroads (crown,

edges of pavement, shoulders, & ditches).

PROFILES

General:

Each separate profile labeled with the road name.

Stations & Elevations to proper scale.

Geopak Groundline Profiles have “grn” in their names.

Centerlines:

All centerline ground line profiles plotted.

Bridge deck profile (when applicable).

Centerline intersection station equations.

Stations & elevations of each railroad rail crossing.

Bench marks.

Underground utilities profiles (parallel to centerline).

Underground utilities (crossing the centerline).

Low wires (station, elevation, type) shown (add temperature for high-tension lines).

Existing drainage structures that cross a centerline (bridges, pipes, box culverts)

(show size, type, station, invert, direction of flow).

Storm & sanitary sewers profiles (parallel to centerline).

Storm & sanitary sewers (crossing the centerline).

High water & normal water elevations at stream crossings.

ROW ACQUISITION TABLE

Tract numbers agree with planimetrics.

Owners' names correct as taken from the deed.

All columns filled out properly.

FINALIZE

All features match TDOT features.

Text and other drafting element overlaps resolved

Text, lines, and symbols rotated to the mainline alignment.

Check each individual Microstation level for correct color, weight, linestyle, & element type.

Detach all files that are not turned in with the survey.

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