The Pittsylvania County School Board commissioned Shanks Associates to survey three school sites that housed integrate schools which are being taken out of the school system. The surveys were particularly difficult due to the length of time from the original land grants. The properties had been donated to the public for school sites in the mid to late 1800's. Extensive courthouse research was required. The three school site surveys, totaling 60 acres, were performed to ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey Standards.
Shanks Associates provided design and right-of-way surveys for the City's Gas Distribution Consultant to provide gas service to Twin Springs Elementary School and surrounding areas in Pittsylvania County. Work included 3.2 miles of location, topographic and right-of-way surveys.
Boundary and Topographic survey of 3.448 acre undeveloped tract in Gretna. Survey included one foot contour intervals, location of all physical improvements, and establishing property boundary. Data was gathered, processed, and transmitted to design architect by electronic (digital) methods.
Design surveys and base mapping for a waterline extension for the Pittsylvania County Service Authority. Work included establishing horizontal control, vertical control, alignment, planimetric features, and profiles for the 3500 linear foot waterline extension project.
Design Surveys and base mapping for a 4000 linear foot water line extension project commissioned to provide water service and fire protection to the new Bowles East Industrial Park on U. S. Route 29 south of Chatham. Work included establishing horizontal control, vertical control, alignment, planimetric features, and profiles for the project.
Design surveys, base mapping and easement plats for the Pittsylvania County Service Authority. Project consisted of 6400 linear feet of gravity sanitary sewer lines.
Shanks Associates was the survey consultant for twelve miles of boundary line retracement for the Jefferson National Park. The survey was performed for the United States Forest Service along rough, mountainous terrain. Work included property research, adjoiner notification, boundary traversing and reestablishment, refurbishing or setting property corners, and preparation of boundary plats.
Norfolk Southern Railroad commissioned Shanks Associates to provide a boundary survey of the Hotel Roanoke and surrounding properties when it was to be donated to Virginia Tech Real Estate Foundation. The survey involved researching railway and public records dating to the early 1800's. The Virginia Tech Real Estate Foundation subsequently commissioned Shanks Associates to provide a physical improvement survey, and later, a topographic survey.
The City of Danville hired Shanks Associates to provide a boundary survey of property containing and surrounding the Train Station on Craighead Street. Work included detailed property research dating back to records prepared in the 1800's. A boundary and subdivision plat was prepared and tied to the City of Danville G.P.S. Ground Control Network.
Shanks Associates provided G.P.S. Control surveys under the supervision of Computer Services. The survey was performed to establish horizontal and vertical control for an aerial mapping project. The survey included twelve new G.P.S. points and two City of Danville G.P.S. Ground Control Network points.
AT&T Network Systems and CONTEL commissioned Shanks Associates to establish latitude, longitude, elevation, and true north for mobile telephone equipment facilities and towers on ten mountain top sites in southwest Virginia. Work also included property research, retracement surveys, access road design and surveys, and preparation of boundary and easement plats.
Sites included:
Poplar Camp Mountain, Carroll County
Wills Ridge, Floyd County
Angel's Rest, Giles County
Big Walker Mountain, Wythe County
Fancy Gap Mountain, Carroll County
Spruce Run Mountain, Giles County
Dublin, Pulaski County
Hamilton Knob, Wythe County
Sand Mountain, Wythe County
Bastian, Bland County
During 1992 and 1993, Shanks Associates was commissioned by the City of Danville to provide surveying and engineering services for the City on the following projects:
Shanks Associates was contracted by Bock and Clard National Surveyor's Network to provide an ALTA/ACSM Boundary Survey of a 40 acre Automotive Parts Manufacturing Facility in southern Botetourt County, Virginia. Services provided included location of the manufacturing buildings, associated support structures, such as rail sidings, liquid oxygen and propane storage facilities as well as access road, parking and utilities serving the site.
Shanks Associates prepared topographic and ALTA/ACSM Boundary Surveys for Estes Motor Express Lines to assist in the acquisition and renovation of an 8.5 acre freight terminal site located at Grahams Forge in Wythe County, Virginia. Topographic survey was performed using terrestrial survey techniques and included location of the Freight Terminal and Office Complex, Trailer Storage, Tractor Fueling and Maintenance Facilities, Refrigeration Unit Storage, Site Utilities and Lighting, and topography with one foot contour intervals. Boundary surveying services included Boundary Retracement and Monumentation, Adjoiner names with legal references and tax parcel information, location of utility easements and right-of-ways of Interstate 81 and associated frontage road.