Bruce- our older pls/pe...well i was wrong about his age,.,, he will turn 90 in november.
work wise, we are still busy, busy busy.
i've almost finished filling out the paperwork for submission so i can take the PLS test- should be finished next week or so - i have to figure out what jobs i've done to submitt- according to the test, my job is classified closest as an analyst (rankings in descending order go- owner, manager, administrator, analyst, investigator, party chief, researcher, post processor, cad, instrument person, rod person, training or other. i tend to do most of the research, i do most of the cad, i do most of the evaluating of plans to field calculations etc, the one thing i RARELY do is,,,go out in the field and do the actual Survey part.
side note:
The city of boston water and sewer commision is starting-this week- electronic only review submissions of plans, currently only 2 companies were admitted to the program to submit in this manner, the company i work for is one of them. looks fairly simple for submissions too, we log into the website, upload the file, it gets reviewed, revisions required will be noted to us somehow we have not submitted one - and i have not reviewed the procedure yet) we make revisions, reupload- gets review approval, we print out plan, stamp it, bring 5 copies to engineering, they send it up and it gets signed/approved, hopefully this will streamline SOME of the process and make it a bit faster to get approval (not that it takes us long to get an approval, typically a max of 2 meetings for approval- bring in, gets reviewed in meeting, then says, i want this or that (if something is not right, or he wants a different connection, or a profile if there is a bigass pipe in the way) we take notes back, make changes, bring back in, done..
found a cool plan for one of our projects that we are doing on dorchester avenue in boston, there is a sewer easement across the property, typically we cannot BUILD on the easement but can on this one, the city has nothing shown inside the easement, so i just had to find out why, and did, the reason why it is not on the city system is...the sewer interceptor is too deep to be shown on the city gis, the 10' diameter interceptor is 200 feet underground......i found the plan at the registry that shows the profile, initially i was confused as to why it was not shown, until i looked at the vertical scale,...1"=50 feet...pipe is 7 miles long and goes across boston to deer island(where the main treatment plant is).