Kevin Franklin 
By Kevin Franklin, PLS, Owner of Franklin Surveys Franklin Surveys is committed to the safety and well-being of our employees and clients. This past year has been challenging on so many levels with several types of businesses unable to open and many people out of work. We’d like to take a moment to thank our loyal clients and … Read more
Franklin Surveys was hired by Save the Sound to provide the existing conditions survey that was used as part of the base map for planning and designing a greenspace project which is currently moving forward in New Haven. Save the Sound has been developing the Mill River Trail and have completed the northern leg. The second … Read more
In support of a local hydro engineering firm, Franklin Surveys mobilized to an idyllic section of the Farmington River in picturesque Barkhamsted, Connecticut. Our crew worked alongside a fluvial geomorphologist and his crew and independently to establish a base map for the project. Natural river forces, combined with the proximity of the adjacent river road, created … Read more
Franklin Surveys was tasked by a major telecommunications company to provide updated lease area exhibits in support of their updated operating agreements. This utility project involved visiting nearly two dozen existing cellular facilities, in an area encompassing all 8 of Connecticut’s counties. This work afforded us some excellent views of the state, as many of the … Read more
From 2019 – 2020, we served as surveyor-of-record for a Site Redevelopment on Naubuc Avenue in Glastonbury. The project was conducted in the shadow of the Putnam Bridge, and was in support of the plan to convert an existing residence to commercial use as an attorney’s office. Our work included survey of the FEMA flood hazard boundary … Read more
Summer 2020 – We completed professional services for the construction of the new Springhill Suites by Marriott. It is now open for guests at 76 Berlin Road (Route 372) in Cromwell. Survey work began in 2018 with an existing conditions survey to map the property boundaries and the locations of existing utilities that were installed prior for … Read more
For one of our recent projects, we had the pleasure of walking the grounds of a property on Station Road in Scotland. Station Road is located just to the northeast of the four corners of the towns of Windham, Scotland, Franklin and Sprague, not far from the Shetucket River. The uniquely rural and truly pristine … Read more
Franklin Surveys was hired as the land surveyor for a large scale river restoration project conducted in and around Whitford Pond, in southeastern Connecticut. The project is being headed up by Save the Sound, formerly known as Connecticut Fund for the Environment/Save the Sound. Whitford Pond is an impoundment created by the construction of an earth … Read more
Franklin Surveys Prepared an Existing Conditions Map for the Griswold Enrichment Program 9-11 Memorial Franklin Surveys was proud to donate our services in support of the Griswold Enrichment Program 9-11 Memorial, completed fall of 2019. The project involved the planning, design and construction of a memorial outside of Griswold Elementary School featured prominently at the center … Read more
Drafting a map is all about making choices. The ability to make the best choices to meet the client’s needs is “what separates the wheat from the chaff”, to borrow an oft-used expression from one of my mentors. To begin with, Earth is round, and the map is flat. Picture the act of gift wrapping … Read more