112 West Van Buren Street
Columbia City, IN 46725
ph: 260-244-3640
fax: 260-244-4640
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Below is a list and brief description of the services provided by J.K. Walker & Associates. If you need additional information, or have questions, please contact us, and we will be glad to help you with your needs.
An ALTA/ACSM Survey, or ALTA Survey, is a boundary survey prepared to a set of minimum standards adopted by American Land Title Association (ALTA) and American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM). An ALTA Survey shows improvements, easements, rights of way, and other elements impacting the ownership of land. Typically, an ALTA Survey is prepared for commercial properties, because it provides the title company with extra information required to insure the title to the land and improvements to the high degree that a commercial development may require. In addition to the minimum standards set forth by ALTA/ACSM, a table of optional elements, Table A, is included. A review of Table A (PDF) is helpful in determining the scope of our services.
An as-built survey is a survey conducted during or after a construction project to verify that the work done was completed to the specifications of the plot plan or site plan.
Walker & Associates use AutoCad to create drawings of surveys, easements, subdivisions, etc. Other AutoCad services are available upon request.
A boundary survey is a survey to establish the boundaries of a parcel of land using its legal description and/or the legal description of adjoining parcels of land.
Construction layout and staking is the process of establishing and marking the location of proposed improvements, such as roads, buildings and sewer lines.
Our land surveyors and engineers are available to answer questions about any or all of the services listed.
Existing and/or proposed easements marked on the ground and depicted and noted on a drawing.
An erosion and sediment control plan is a plan that is drawn in conjunction with a subdivision plan and/or construction site that denotes how upcoming construction activities will effect the movement of stormwater and sediment across the construction site and onto abutting properties and how developers will adjust grading activities to limit the depositing of more stormwater and sediment onto abutting properties than was done prior to construction.
Walker & Associates offers land planning services that help create a concept plan, through subdivision design and preliminary plat approval, all the way to the final plat approval.
Land surveying is the detailed study or inspection, as by gathering information through observations, measurements in the field, questionnaires, or research of legal instruments, and data analysis in the support of planning, designing, and establishing of property boundaries. It involves the re-establishment of cadastral surveys and land boundaries based on documents of record and historical evidence, as well as certifying surveys (as required by statute or local ordinance) of subdivision plats/maps, registered land surveys, judicial surveys, and space delineation. Land surveying can include associated services such as mapping and related data accumulation, construction layout surveys, precision measurements of length, angle, elevation, area, and volume, as well as horizontal and vertical control surveys, and the analysis and utilization of land survey data.
As part of its administration of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) publishes flood hazard maps, called Flood Insurance Rate Maps, or FIRMs. The purpose of a FIRM is to show the areas in a community that are subject to flooding and the risk associated with these flood hazards. One of the areas shown on the FIRM is a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA). The SFHA is the area that has a 1-percent or greater chance of flooding in any given year; this area is also referred to by some as the 1-percent-annual-chance floodplain, base floodplain, or the 100-year floodplain. The flood hazard and risk information presented on the FIRMs is the result of engineering studies that are performed by engineering companies, other Federal agencies, or communities, which are reviewed for compliance with FEMA guidelines and approved by FEMA.
FEMA uses the most accurate flood hazard information available and applies rigorous standards in developing the FIRMs. However, because of limitations of scale or topographic definition of the source maps used to prepare a FIRM, small areas may be inadvertently shown within an SFHA on a FIRM even though the property (legally defined parcel(s) of land, structure[s]) is on natural ground and is at or above the elevation of the 1-percent-annual-chance flood. This elevation is most commonly referred to as the Base Flood Elevation, or BFE. Such cases are referred to as "inadvertent inclusions."
For other small areas, earthen fill may have been placed during construction, thereby elevating a small area within the SFHA to an elevation that is at or above the BFE. This construction may have taken place during the time the engineering study was being performed or subsequent to that study. Because of the limited extent of the elevated area and the limitations of the map scale, it may not have been possible for FEMA to show this area as being outside the SFHA and so these areas have been incorrectly included in the SFHA on the FIRM.
Recognizing that these situations do occur, FEMA established administrative procedures to change the designation for these properties on the FIRM. These processes are referred to as the Letter of Map Amendment, or LOMA, process and the Letter of Map Revision Based on Fill, or LOMR-F, process. Through these processes, an individual who owns, rents, or leases property may submit certain mapping and survey information to FEMA and request that FEMA issue a document that officially removes a property and/or structure from the SFHA. In most cases, the applicant will need to hire a Licensed Land Surveyor or Registered Professional Engineer to prepare an Elevation Certificate for the property. Upon receiving a complete application forms package, FEMA will normally complete its review and issue its determination in 4 to 6 weeks. (From http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/fhm/fmc_loma.shtm)
Walker & Associates can determine volume calculations, such as cut and fill volumes for your construction project.
112 West Van Buren Street
Columbia City, IN 46725
ph: 260-244-3640
fax: 260-244-4640
mail