CONSTRUCTION STAKES. Engineer will provide the Contractor with primary horizontal and vertical control to consist of one construction baseline and two benchmarks. The Contractor shall take all necessary precautions to preserve any and/or all markings and staking. Payment for costs of restaking shall be the responsibility of the Contractor.
CONSTRUCTION STAKES. The Contractor will provide all surveying required to construct this project per controls established on the project drawings and specifications. The general location, alignment, elevation and grade of the Work will be determined by the Contractor who will set such stakes as are necessary to properly mark these elements. After contractor completed the staking, the Engineer or its agent will inspect the staking. The Contractor shall assume full responsibility for detail dimensions and elevations measured from the lines, grades, and elevations so established. No claims will be honored for delay of the job for lack of line and grade if the Contractor has not given the Engineer two (2) days written notice prior to the need for such line and grade. The Engineer may require the Contractor, at the Contractor's expense, to provide such masts, scaffolds, batter boards, straightedges, templates or other devices as may be necessary to facilitate laying out, inspecting and constructing the Work. The Contractor shall exercise proper care in the preservation of all stakes set for his use or for the use of the Engineer, and if such stakes are disturbed, lost or removed by the Contractor's operations, or by the actions of others when stakes are inadequately protected, they will be replaced at the Contractor's earliest convenience, and the cost of resetting may be charged to the Contractor. The Contractor shall protect and preserve all land survey monuments of property corners and precise bench marks along the line of his Work. Public land survey comers are to be cooperatively preserved by the Contractor and the Engineer. When it is necessary to remove or disturb the monument of one of these corners, the Contractor shall notify the Engineer in sufficient time so that it can be properly witnessed and reset by the Engineer. Private property corner monuments (concrete monuments, irons, stakes, etc.) along the Right-of-Way lines, which are disturbed or removed by the Contractor, shall be replaced at the Contractor's expense. The Work shall be done by a Professional Land Surveyor registered in the State of Michigan. Where precise bench marks are disturbed, the County shall reestablish, reset, or replace such precise bench marks, and the cost thereof shall be paid by the Contractor.
