Mapping
Survey & Stake Out for Waterford Parc Luxury Apartments
Waterford Parc Luxury Apartments, a new 72-unit community located on the Waterford / New London boundary, is open for new residents. Franklin Surveys was the project surveyor from start to finish. We began our contribution by providing existing conditions mapping which served as the project base plan for the planning and design phases. Once the development was approved, our …
Topography & Bathymetry Survey of Whitford Pond in Ledyard & Stonington Connecticut
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 …
Maps That Speak for Themselves
Once completed, a map should speak for itself. If done properly, there should be no reason for the map user to have to call the preparer after the fact to get clarification on something. Everything should be laid out on the table, including the map metadata (facts describing the making of the map). That is …
Mapping Choices
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 …
Alewife Cove Topographic and Bathymetric Survey
We are the survey firm of record for an exciting project along the Long Island Sound shoreline. In 2019, Franklin Surveys performed a comprehensive topographic and bathymetric survey of the waterway corridor and provided the base mapping for the project. This project, on the Waterford / New London town line, is part of an effort …
As-Built Survey and Mapping for the Steele Brook Restoration
As-Built Survey of Ecological Restoration Project on Heminway Pond, Watertown, Connecticut Franklin Surveys was engaged to perform an as-built survey to document the positions of a successful river restoration, following the removal of an ancient dam structure which impounded a portion of Steele Brook. As of the year 1847, Merritt Heminway had built a mill …
Environmental Engineering Support in Plainfield CT
Environmental Engineering and River Restoration on the Moosup River in Plainfield, CT Franklin Surveys conducted a detailed topographic and bathymetric survey of about 30 acres in and along the Moosup River in Plainfield. An environmental engineering project of this magnitude involves setting and locating hundreds of wetlands flags and establishing a control network spanning several …
Land Surveying for East Hartford Flood Control System
Kevin Franklin, Project Manager and Franklin Surveys Provides the East Hartford Flood Control System With High-quality Land Surveying Services Franklin Surveys has provided land surveying and project management for the East Hartford Flood Control System over the course of 2 years. The services for the East Hartford Flood Control System have included construction verifications, as-built mapping, as …
