O’Day Consultants was a Project Design Consultants team member providing as-needed services land surveying services to San Diego Gas and Electric from 2011 through 2014.

O’Day was selected to conduct:

• Field topographic surveys
• Aerial topographic surveys
• Boundary surveys
• Site planning surveys
• Control surveys
• Court exhibit surveys
• Preparation of easement documents
• Encroachment outlines
• Monumentation surveys
• Record of survey and corner records
• Hydrographic surveys
• Records research
• Replacement of property corners destroyed during construction

Individual projects completed under this contract included the Sunrise Powerlink Project, which involved the construction of a 117-mile, 500-kilovolt / 1000- megawatt electric transmission line to carry renewable energy from the Imperial Valley to San Diego. O’Day Consultants was one of two surveying firms that set 566 easement boundary corner monuments along the transmission line route utilizing GPS technology. The project involved strenuous field surveying conditions such as thick brush, steep mountainous terrain, and remote locations. Many monuments were set in solid rock requiring special equipment. Some corners were very remote and inaccessible by vehicle, yet too far and difficult to reach by foot, necessitating that surveyors were brought in by helicopter.

Tasks provided on the project includes:

• Field surveying using GPS technology to tie in survey monuments and property lines
• Easement boundary corner monumentation
• Survey control at remote sites
• Checking and setting construction stakes
• Laying out access roads and other improvements
• Providing raw data to the prime consultant