State Route 2 Survey
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) approached DEA in 2003 to provide right-of-way surveying and mapping for a 3.2 mile stretch of State Route 2, a scenic, two-lane rural highway that winds for 52 miles through the San Gabriel Mountains. The legal descriptions in the two acquisition documents, dated 1927, were inconsistent regarding right-of-way.
The project goal was to establish the limits of the state’s ownership and control through the area. The survey would also help Caltrans address persistent problems affecting this portion of the highway. Chief among those were traffic flow and environmental concerns.
Field crews spent four months gathering information on existing monumentation (nails, pipe, wood stakes) in 280 locations. Ultimately, 162 private parcels of land adjacent to the highway were affected.