February 14, 2014
O’Dell Engineering has completed the terrestrial laser scan registration for the Swanston Avenue portion of the Gilroy Water Mains Project. Over 30 individual scans were registered and unified into a single point cloud with over 20 million individual points. The O’Dell Engineering Team is now using the unified point cloud to extract features for the […]
February 14, 2014
Land surveyors at O’Dell Engineering are nearing the completion of a boundary survey for the Fuller Neighborhood Improvements Project in Chowchilla, California. As part of the boundary survey O’Dell Engineering field crews located several property corner monuments in the neighborhood. They also analyzed historical survey maps of the area. The geometry for block and street […]
February 14, 2014
O’Dell Engineering has completed feature extraction using the terrestrial laser scans collected on the Fuller Neighborhood Improvements Project in Chowchilla, California. Civil Engineers at the company are now using the extracted data to draft a topographic survey in AutoCAD Civil 3D that shows the existing conditions at the project site. This topographic survey will later […]
February 10, 2014
On January 13, 2014 the Sacramento Bee Newspaper reported that the City of Richmond are seeking a partnership with other local communities. Richmond wants to form a joint powers authority that would allow it to seize the mortgages on foreclosed homes, write down the principal, and refinance the loan. Mortgage lenders and investors would take […]
February 10, 2014
On January 16, 2014 the Stockton Record Newspaper reported that San Joaquin County is no longer at the top of the foreclosure rankings in the United States. According to the article, the County now holds the 25th spot from the top of the list of communities with the most foreclosures. In the last few years it […]
February 10, 2014
On January 24, 2014 the Stockton Record Newspaper reported that San Joaquin County residents had their first opportunity to comment on proposed changes to regulation of wineries within the county. The proposed changes deal specifically with events held at wineries. According to the article, wineries and business advocates claim these events are vital for the […]
February 10, 2014
On January 23, 2014 the Modesto Bee Newspaper reported the University of California Board of Regents had voted to preserve over 6,500 acres of grassland on the north and east side of the UC Merced Campus. The article indicated the grassland is unique for its vernal pools. The land is already used by university students […]
February 10, 2014
On January 27, 2014 the San Francisco Chronicle published an article about efforts to preserve the historic sand dunes in Oakley, California. The article indicates the City of Oakley was built on sandy topography that was slowly buried by farming, flood control levees, and land development. According to the article local conservation advocates have been […]
February 10, 2014
On January 13, 2014 the Modesto Bee Newspaper reported that efforts to cut the City of Modesto Budget may have impacts on land use within the City. The article listed several proposals for budget cuts that would allow the City to make up part of a 9 million dollar shortfall they will face over the […]
February 10, 2014
On February 5, 2014 the Stockton Record Newspaper reported that FEMA was beginning a process to add 5,000 homes in the Smith Canal area of Stockton to a high risk flood zone. According to the article, several years have passed since FEMA granted a grace period to fix local levees. FEMA could also take similar […]
