Arc Surveying & Mapping, Inc.

1. ARC SURVEYING & MAPPING, INC.
PROFESSIONAL SURVEYING SOLUTIONS SINCE 1986
www.arcsurveyors.com
5567 Commander Dr., Ste 101 5202 San Juan Ave 4160 Minton Road
Arlington, TN 38002 Jacksonville, FL 32210 Melbourne, FL 32904
(901) 867-5333 (904) 384-8377 (321) 728-8688
Cypress Creek Drainage Basin Mapping Memphis, Tennessee
The City of Memphis contracted several teams of professionals to complete
drainage basin mapping, data collection, GIS database creation, and
hydraulic calculations for several large sub basins within the City of
Memphis. The project consisted of the topographic survey of all open
channels, ditches, and canals at 500 foot intervals, bridge surveys, cross
sections, and the location, size, and invert elevations of every pipe of 24
inch or larger in each basin. In addition, a catalog of drainage structures,
manholes, and inlets were to be surveyed and attributes assigned for the
creation of a GIS database. Arc Surveying and Mapping, Inc. was an integral
part of one of the selected teams. We were tasked with the surveying and
prepping of the data for GIS input. The Cypress Basin (shown here)
consisted of over 4,500 Acres and contained well over 2000 drainage
structures and over 4 miles of canals.
Arc Surveying and Mapping had to create traverses using Trimble Robotic
Total stations and Trimble RTK GPS to collect data on over 2000 drainage
structures such as curb inlets, surface drains, manholes, and culverts. All
structures were located horizontally, vertically, and invert elevations were
surveyed using standard topographic survey methods.
Arc Surveying and Mapping traversed along over 4 miles of ditches, canals,
and concrete lined ditches performing cross sections every 500 feet. In
addition, bridge surveys were performed at each street crossing and box
bridges. Arc had several crews working on this project for over 4 months
collecting data.