Commonwealth of Kentucky Tourism Arts and Heritage Cabinet Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Engineering Division Survey Branch Kelly Carr PLS 1232010 1 Project Purpose To establish vertical monuments that will aid in the accurate placement of property lines adjacent to Lake ID: 780759
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Lake Malone Vertical Control Monument Project
Commonwealth of KentuckyTourism, Arts and Heritage CabinetDepartment of Fish and Wildlife ResourcesEngineering DivisionSurvey BranchKelly Carr, PLS
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Slide2Project Purpose
To establish vertical monuments that will aid in the accurate placement of property lines adjacent to Lake Malone. 12/3/20102
Slide3Present Situation
Existing surveys have used varied methods to establish property lines around the lake.spillway elevationwater level on a given daylow waterhigh waterOriginal deed descriptions can be misunderstood when basic principles of surveying are not applied.
Adjoining owners may believe property rights extend to the water when in fact the rights that exists are for public use.Deed distances are measured horizontal.
Every survey shall be made by horizontal measurement.
-Kentucky Revised Statute 73.070(1)
In plane surveying the reference base for field work and computations is assumed to be a flat horizontal surface.
-Wolf & Brinker
, Elementary Surveying, Ninth Edition.
New York: HarperCollins 1994
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Slide4Present Conditions
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Slide5Present Conditions
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Slide6Mission
To provide the necessary vertical tie to the spillway elevation to locate property lines adjacent to Lake Malone.Owners will need to retain the services of a local surveyor to utilize this information to locate property lines.Availability of data may result in more economical survey costs for local
owners.Use of a common vertical datum will facilitate consistency between new surveys.
15 Monuments were placed for ease of use.
High visibility markers are placed at monuments to aid in recovery.
Any point on the Lake is less than 1 mile from a monument.
M
onument data sheets are available to local Land Surveyors.
M
onument data sheets are published on website for public use. http://fw.ky.gov/
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Slide7Project Map
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Slide8MonumentData Sheet
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