February 1, 2014
O’Dell Engineering has started surveys to support the replacement of Water Well #7 in the City of Firebaugh. O’Dell Engineering is teamed with Kennedy/Jenks on the project. As part of their work on the project, the O’Dell Engineering survey team conducted topographic surveys of the levee and water infrastructure at the project site. The […]
February 1, 2014
O’Dell Engineering has just completed field surveys to support the design of street improvements in the Fuller Neighborhood in Chowchilla, California. As part of the project O’Dell Engineering will develop an engineering design that will increase the safety of pedestrians who walk to local schools in the neighborhood.Terrestrial laser scanning technology was used in […]
December 12, 2013
On December 10th the Fresno Bee Newspaper published an editorial in support of the Westlake Master Planned Community in Fresno. The editorial describes the benefits the 430 acre, 2.600 home community would bring to the area. The article states that: ” This part of Fresno is in dire need of private investment and upscale housing. […]
December 12, 2013
O’Dell Engineering has implemented a new GIS to manage the land subdivision process. The GIS will be used by O’Dell Engineering land surveyors on major land subdivision and master plan community projects throughout the California Central Valley. The GIS allows land surveyors at O’Dell Engineering to quickly and efficiently access records related to the subdivision […]
December 12, 2013
O’Dell Engineering has just started a major update of the GIS design it uses to manage land surveying data and real property records for the large right-of-way acquisition projects. The GIS is designed to manage information on land ownership information, tax assessor information, parcel boundary data, and information collected during boundary field surveys performed by O’Dell Engineering […]
December 12, 2013
O’Dell Engineering is publishing a brand new monthly publication entitled Survey Connections. The publication will be based on the company’s successful “Land Connections” letter and will have the same format. The publication is freely distributed. Survey Connections will help civil engineers, structural engineers, and geotechnical engineers better understand survey technologies and work products they may […]
December 12, 2013
Land Surveyors at O’Dell Engineering have implemented a point cloud to GIS work flow using open source tools. The workflow allows the land surveying team to quickly extract GIS features from a point cloud. The workflow includes the use of AutoLISP code from the SurveyLISP Project and the open source desktop GIS OpenJUMP. The land […]
December 12, 2013
The Modesto Bee Newspaper reported on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 that there is a legal dispute over the rights to water from a large ground water well in Patterson, California. The industrial ground water well was formerly used by Patterson Frozen Foods and has a capacity to rival that of all the other water users […]
October 29, 2013
San Joaquin County has taken two (2) recent actions related to the regulation of vineyards and wine making. CBS Sacramento reports that the San Joaquin County Planning Commission will soon vote on a ban on winery events on the over 100,000 acres of vineyards within the county boundary. The ban is opposed by the Lodi […]
