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Join us on a Friday of every month as we present lectures on a variety of business, project management and surveying subjects. All from
the convenience of your office! And most courses have been approved for NY CE credit! Register on our website, www.nysapls.org.

Featured September Program… By the end of this session participants will be able to:
1. Explain how to research and recover “old” records –
We will Cross that BRIDGE When we Get to it Valuation Railroad Maps from multiple archive agencies
Presented by Adolf Jonietz, LS online records.
September 9, 2022
Registration Fees: $49 Members; $60 Non-Members 2. Describe how to use Valuation Railroad Maps in the field,
Approved for 1.0 NY LS/PE CE Hour to recover any old evidence that still exists today.
3. Explain the importance of providing “current evidence”
This course will be a case study review of work completed
initially for a contractor in need of confirmation and mapping of the “OLD” records into a current drawing plan.
verification of existing measurements of a hundred plus year About our Speaker:
old Railroad Bridge. These measurements were then compared Adolf Jonietz has worked in the surveying field since
1987. In 2005, he became a licensed land surveyor with
to the “OLD’ records – Valuation Railroad Maps. This would NYS and in 2010 he joined the NYC Department of
then allow panels manufactured as per “specs” to be placed Environmental Protection in the East-of-Hudson
“anywhere” on the current and existing steel framework of the watershed. He is presently the land surveyor supervisor
overseeing approximately 35,000 acres in Dutchess, Putnam, and Westchester
old Railroad Bridge main span over the Hudson River between counties. He is also an adjunct professor for the Dutchess Community College,
Highland and Poughkeepsie, New York. The panels were NOT teaching an introductory class on surveying. Adolf is the past president of the
to be unique to a specific location across the main Railroad Mid-Hudson Valley Land Surveyors Association, and currently serves on the
NYSAPLS Strategic Planning and Education committees. In 2009, his
Bridge span. Installation of the panels can then be set in place
article on “Precarious Positioning” was published in POB Magazine. Some
much faster – meeting the crucial deadline for opening day of his previous high profile projects include: “Monitoring at Ground Zero” on
on the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson traveling up the September 12th, 2001 for the next 6 weeks and two other projects that have
Hudson River. It also secured New York State funding for the been published in national Surveying Magazines. The first was monitoring a
construction site in Queens near Shea Stadium using a robot instrument
New York Parks Commission. On a side note – at a later time, continuously running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via the internet for
it also allowed 2 separate Counties identify the jurisdiction for communication and data transfers. The other project was “Walkway Over
the Hudson” which with the use of NYSNet CORS tied to a GPS Rover unit
the Fire and Police department for those two towns.
allowed immediate horizontal and vertical datum for the engineers to
Through this course case study, the student will learn how to compare old drawing plans to current conditions.
research and recover “OLD” records – valuation Railroad Maps
from multiple archive agencies online records. They be told
how these Valuation Railroad Maps can be used in the field to

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Railroad Maps documented information along with a CADD
program. There is a chance that sites may need to be visited
again, depending on the project, but when all is completed,
the students will understand the importance of having a more
current drawing plan for today’s world for a lot of the Valuation
Railroad Maps that were created 100 years ago.

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