Abandonment Survey

This is for people who live at the end of a dead end street and want to take over the end of the street. It's the reverse of eminent domain. If you can convince the government that they have no interest in the land, they'll be happy to sell it to you. They just have to have a survey.

We have to write a new land description, or legal description. That means researching both the subject property and the (adjoining) client property and also the property opposite the client.

In the field it's pretty much just a regular boundary survey, with extra emphasis on physical evidence of easements. That just means we locate the power poles, manholes, ditches, and such.