While talking with a doctor acquaintance about a building he was developing, surveyors came up. When the full block was developed, a sewer easement was granted across one part of the property. During actual construction, the easement was marked incorrectly and the utilities were installed outside of the granted easement. Fortunately for all involved, since the city and the developer wanted to move them to another side of the building where they had full access (no easement required) it turned into a non-issue. It has the potential of becoming a legal horror fest.
It might be easy to minimize the work of surveyors, and their work, when done well can become invisible to the average person. However, for me, quality survey work is beautiful. It can make my job monumentally easier. More importantly, sloppy survey work can creatr kinds of time consuming problems.
So my hats to good surveyors!
