Four Points Associates, Inc.

Blast from the past, my former associate and I helping 5he Friends of Pettingill School Park out 7 years ago

You may have spotted Don Dostie and Shawn Mitchell conducting a ground study yesterday at Pettingill School Park. Don works at Four Points Associates, Inc. and is a member of the Friends of Pettingill Steering Committee, and his assistant Shawn Mitchell is a student at University of Maine at Orono. Don provided us with the following explanation of their work yesterday:

“Prior to doing any layout work for Mark Labonte (of Labonte Landscaping) we needed to locate some existing features and try to locate property corners. None of the irons called for in the 1925 deed to the City of Lewiston were found. We did find some iron pins/pipes marking other property corners. We found 7 or 8 other pipes for other property corners on Little, Marble and College Streets. We will use that information to develop approximate property lines for the park itself and the street right of way lines. While there we also located any utility structures, manholes, water and gas valve gates we could see. We located telephone poles, the trees within the property (including one very large stump) the fences, pavement edges and curbs. We didn’t have time to locate the playground facilities or wall, Shawn had a golf game to go to!

In total we gathered about 125 shots and once downloaded into a CAD program we will prepare an Existing Conditions plan with the approximate boundary lines showing. Once that base sheet is prepared we can take the LA drawing of the pathways, proposed plantings, etc…, overlay and rotate onto our drawing file. With that accomplished we will be able to set points on anything FoP wants laid out, paths, trees, etc.”

My friends, the calls come in daily. Four Points is not accepting any new survey work this year. My apologies.

We have been blessed in 2021 with repeat business keeping us busy weekends into January. Our intention is to stop working through winters and to start enjoying life a bit. No work will be scheduled to start until April of 2022 at the earliest. Have a safe and happy holiday season. Merry Christmas!

Folks, my phone has been ringing constantly. Unfortunately I can't take any more work on through the end of the year.

Setting corners on a beautiful July morning in Maine.

Due to demand we've been forced to take a few small surveys to help out the community. So you may see me on a Saturday in the Lewiston/Portland areas helping out homeowners. Land Surveyors are in short supply, let me know if you want some part-time work!