Section Survey
Trinidad, Colorado

Section Breakdown

JFSA was required to breakdown several sections of land to complete the Survey Control Portion of the CDOT R2 project number IM-IR (CX) 025-1(121). Most of the original corners in the City of Trinidad were missing. To perform this task, JFSA used the Bureau of Land Management field notes along with passing calls and performed several boundary surveys on platted subdivision and metes and bounds descriptions to rehabilitate, upgraded and or set twenty-nine land corners in Sections 7, Township 33 South, Range 63 West and Sections 12, 13, 24, 25 and 36, Township 33 South, Range 64 West of the 6th Principal Meridian. Along with this, thirty monument records were created and filed with the Board of Registration for Professional Land Surveyors.

Control Network

J.F. Sato and Associates (JFSA) were required to densify the HARN in Southern Colorado. The scope of this project includes setting new stations from the state line to north of Trinidad, locating specified land corners pertinent to CDOT and tying an existing GPS network in Trinidad into CDOT's statewide network.

Right-Of-Way of Interstate 25/BNSF Railroad

JFSA was required to determine the interstate right-of-way along with the existing Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad right-of-way and the abandoned Colorado Southern railroad right-of-way in the City of Trinidad, Colorado. The JFSA surveying department obtained railroad maps from Topeka, Kansas to help perform field locates to tie down the right-of-way.

ACEC Merit Award

JFSA received Merit Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado (ACEC) for the project.

Reference: Fellsburg, Holt and Ullevig, Thomas W. Anzia, P.E., 303.721.1440
CDOT Region 2, Joseph P. Garcia, 719.546.5727