So am I. That's why I work in an office. Here is something I wrote a few years ago for a fellow bureaucrat at the City of Pismo Beach, California: == Sandrock, or sandstone, runs generally below a la
Thanks for the interesting information about the geology of St. Paul! I've heard there are a lot of interesting old tunnels in St. Paul. Doug _______________________________________________ Shop-talk
Hi Phil, Interesting stuff, labour must have been cheap in those days. A lot of Cornish tin miners emigrated to the US in the 1800s. Saint Paul would have been a natural home for them. One small poin
Yes, it was. If we were starting fresh today, with expensive labor and advanced machinery, those sewers would probably be conventional. I don't know that there were a lot of workers with actual minin
Right... I see now. Any UK surveyor working in the US is going to need a speedy re-education course, and vice versa. This side of the pond datums (data??) are positive numbers above sea level (at New
Phil, are you sure that's Mean Sea Level ? Sounds to me more like an ellipsoidal height (meaning the theoretical model of the entire earth's surface that datums like WGS-84 are based on). There are
Maybe not, depending on location. I'm sure there are newer communities which have all their records in USGS sea-level numbers. Except that you can't look a plan so marked and know the elevation of th
Randall, I don't know whether you haven't been following the bread crumbs or if you are trolling. Just to play along, I'll pretend you are serious. Saint Paul is above sea level. This makes a lot of
Thanks for clarifying, Phil. Sorry I got the sign flipped before. Ok, that part was intended tongue-in-cheek. (Hence the <G> indicating a big grin.) Perhaps I should explain that I worked for many y
Dunno. The number hasn't changed here recently. If you are building locally, your best bet is to shoot to our benchmarks. We know our sewers haven't gone anywhere. :-) -- Phil Ethier West Side Saint
Thanks. Very interesting. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Shop-talk mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/shop-talk