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Satellites in Space Help with Summer Survey Work on State Road 37
Benefits of I-69 Section 6
You read the title correctly. The I-69 Section 6
survey crews are using satellites in space to
establish the existing rights of way of roads and
deed lines of properties adjacent to the project. This
sort of survey will provide a basis for describing any
new right of way that will be needed to construct
I-69 Section 6.
The satellites are assisting the survey crews to find
center lines and other permanent public survey
markers along the SR 37 corridor in and around
Martinsville. These center lines and markers, called
monumentation, were established through the
Public Land Survey System. You may be asking,
“What exactly is the Public Land Survey System?”
Glad you asked.
The Public Land Survey System was created to
subdivide and describe pieces of land in the United
States. The majority of Indiana was surveyed by
1834 by subdividing townships of 6 square
miles into 36 sections each a mile square. In the
1800s, the corners of individual sections were
generally monumented using 6- by 6-inch wood
posts. Over time, those posts were replaced
with stones set by county surveyors. A lot of
section corners fall within existing streets, so
the stones have been replaced with metal disks,
railroad spikes or iron pins at the road surface.
The technology used in the 1800s consisted
of compasses and steel chains that were 66
feet in length. Today, surveyors often used
Global Positioning Systems, or GPS, to perform
measurements on the Earth by communicating
with satellites in space.
Sometimes surveyors need to check private land
for section corners. Property owners might see one
or two field crew members in fluorescent yellow
vests with measuring tapes or shovels looking for
monuments. Once the monument is found, the crew
sketches up reference ties so that the monument
can be found in the future. They then locate the
monument with our surveying equipment as well.
The current survey work will last into early summer.
Indiana Department of Transportation Volume 2, Issue 2: 2nd Quarter 2017
THE SCOOPO N I - 6 9 S E C T I O N 6
*Impact to a four-county region
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Project Manager’s Corner
Mist Netting and Monitoring
Testimonials
Bat contractors for the Indiana
Department of Transportation
(INDOT) and Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA) have
been conducting mist-netting
on I-69 since 2004 and 2005.
Thereafter, select monitoring
sites have been mist-netted depending upon
construction schedules.
Mist-netting is a process to capture wild birds
and bats for banding or other research projects.
Mist nets are typically made of nylon or polyester
mesh suspended between two poles, resembling a
volleyball net.
Mist-netting occurs pre-construction, during
construction and post-construction. The process
Since the release of the DEIS this spring, the
majority of calls and visits to the I-69 Section
6 project office have been about real estate
acquisition: Is my home/business impacted,
when it will happen, what’s the process, who will
be contacting me? We’re glad you are asking,
because that’s why we are here: to answer your
questions as thoroughly as we can at this stage in
the planning process.
Many of you have asked specifically about letters
you’ve received from law firms offering their
services, saying they’ll protect you from INDOT’s
predatory real estate practices, claiming they’ll get
you top dollar when INDOT lowballs you.
First, let me assure you that we have not shared
your information with any of these firms, or any other
relocation services that you may hear from. They
have access to the public project maps, they’ve
looked at the right-of-way lines, and they have done
their homework. If you’d like to verify the impact to
your property by comparing the actual project maps
with ones you may receive with a solicitation letter,
go to the INDOT March 2017 Maps found at: http://
www.in.gov/indot/projects/i69/2345.htm. Select the
Preferred Alternative Maps.
Second, INDOT will offer fair market value for
your property should it be needed to complete
I-69 Section 6. Our fair market value offer will
be based on professional appraisals – yours and
ours – and it won’t be unreasonable. There is a
federally mandated process in place, and you have
rights within that process. If you have questions, I
encourage you to learn more about the real estate
process here: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/real_
estate/uniform_act/acquisition/real_property.cfm
We’re still on track to issue the Final Environmental
Impact Statement next spring, and we look forward
to working with all of you as we move this project
forward.
While Section 6 continues to make progress along the corridor, stakeholders are bearing witness to the
changes along the interstate. Some are foreshadowing the changes still to come to their region.
Indiana Department of Transportation I-69 Section 6 Project Office7847 Waverly Road Martinsville, IN 46151
Phone: (317) 881-6408
Email: [email protected]
WWW.I69INDYEVN.ORG
Project Office HoursThe pro ject off ice is open Monday
through Fr iday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
excluding state hol idays.
“INDOT has really gone out the way to engage members of our community, to be responsive to our questions and to
really plan the future [with us] in mind. For me, that’s exciting. We want to leave this
community in better shape.”
“As we continue to move north and south, as we work to get the bridge done as well, once that corridor is done, you’ll start to
see a lot of that commerce move off of I-65 onto I-69. And we believe that has huge
economic potential for the region.”
Chief Jeremy Pell White River Township Fire Department
Justin Groenert Southwest Indiana Chamber of Commerce
also occurs for five summers after completing
construction. Captured adult Indiana bats and
northern long-eared bats are fitted with radio
transmitters and tracked to identify roost trees.
To date, more than 18,000 bats have been
captured, of which Indianas bat and northern long-
eared bats are present in small numbers.
The commitment of the project also includes tree
clearing restrictions and mandatory awareness
training for contractors.