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    Culvert Abandonment

    That would have been my thoughts was to push the grout line to the downstream end and work back upstreams and pump as you pull it out. I assume by outlet ports that you mean holes in the top of the culvert that would allow the grout to come out so you could tell you were filling the voids. The...
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    Culvert Abandonment

    I am in the process of designing a commercial develoment that involves the re-alignment of a public street. The roadway has 2 culverts under it. The drainage through these 2 culverts is being re-routed and the owner wants to abandon the culverts. The culverts now are approximately 20' in the...
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    Filling in FEMA flood plains

    I've had a developer approach me about extending a subdivision into a FEMA flood plain. Their thoughts and mine would be to raise the elevation of the ground to above the base flood elevation. We have done this is the past with relatively small sites. However, the thing that concerns me is the...
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    Bentley PowerCivil vs. AutoCad Land Development Software

    Well before you jump ship, have you checked the price of the Bentley software? The company I used to work for also was forced to use Microstation and Geopak because of TDOT standards. I used both LDD and Bentley's software, but it seems that there wasn't much price difference in the two.
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    Layer-Offset

    What program are you using? AutoCAD, Microstation, ???
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    rafter image scaling in autocad 2002

    insert the raster image at the following scale: scale = width in pixels * scale of tif image ------------------------------------ resolution in dpi That should get you what you need. An example, I have a quad map (scale 1" = 2000'), the width in pixels is 4873 and the...

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