August 18, 2016
O’Dell Engineering, a Westwood company provided land surveying services to San Joaquin County for the Messick Road Bridge Replacement Project. The work included establishing survey controls, performing a complete topographic survey 400 feet upstream and downstream from the existing bridge structure, channel cross sections at 25 ft. intervals, performing a complete right-of-way survey, and preparing […]
May 13, 2016
The California High-Speed Rail Authority recently released two construction updates. Work is currently underway at six project sites located within Construction Package 1 (CP1) in Fresno, with more projects expected to begin throughout the coming weeks and the summer. O’Dell Engineering is currently providing right-of-way engineering and survey support services to the California High-Speed Rail […]
March 22, 2016
The Fresno Bee recently published an article titled, “High-speed rail agency adds money, time to right-of-way contracts.” The article chronicles the High-Speed Rail Authority’s decision to extend four of its existing contracts from February 2018 to April 2020, and to add $10 million. In 2011, O’Dell Engineering began managing the right of way surveying of […]
January 8, 2016
O’Dell Engineering, a Westwood company provided non-traffic related improvements to the Caltrans interchange at Whitmore Avenue and Highway 99. The project included 1.3 acres of space within the Caltrans and City of Ceres right-of-way. The project required a creative approach to aesthetics and formal landscape in order to keep landscape installation costs below Caltrans standard […]
January 8, 2016
O’Dell Engineering, a Westwood company managed the surveying efforts for the construction of a new access road and three-story reinforced concrete powerhouse structure to enclose the new generator facility. Bathymetric surveying with sounding and GPS equipment and construction surveying was performed for the design of a coffer dam. Project included daily monitoring surveys, construction staking, […]
January 8, 2016
This public works project installed a new twin-bore sanitary sewer crossing of the Tuolumne River in the City of Modesto. This project was permitted with all major resource agencies at the State and Federal level. This effort replaced a current aging sewer system, and included Horizontal Directional Drilling construction techniques.
January 8, 2016
The Merced Irrigation District required the establishment of Lake McClure’s boundary at two specific areas which consisted of approximately 8 square miles of public land boundaries dating back to the early 1880’s. Public and private boundary lines were retraced, monuments set, and multiple “Record of Survey” maps were filed with Merced County. The assignment included […]
January 8, 2016
O’Dell Engineering, a Westwood company was retained by the Merced Irrigation District (MID) to provide survey support for the Exchequer Hydroelectric project. Services include establishing permanent dam monitoring control points with California State Plane Coordinate values, performing regular settlement and deflection surveys of the dam’s crest and face for MID and the Division of Safety […]
January 8, 2016
This project required comprehensive as-built documentation of Donnells Dam in Tuolumne County, including the upstream and downstream faces, thrust block, outfall and spillway gate structures. The firm’s completed work product would be used to further analyze the existing condition of the dam and associated structures and to meet the requirements of the Federal Energy Regulatory […]
January 8, 2016
The project included a box culvert to pass Fahren’s Creek and a separate pedestrian/bike path under the roadway. Surveying including land net and boundary surveying, right of way needs mapping, topographic mapping and construction staking. Additional work involved environmental permitting; designing multiple horizontal and vertical curves over the creek, a tie-in with the bike path […]