Scope & limitations
Educational template. Pair with residential GPR expectations for buyer language.
- Setting
- Grass pasture strip between barn and house site; buried electric to outbuildings; visible well head upslope.
- Objective
- Approximate horizontal corridor for trenching a replacement domestic line segment without hitting the legacy water path or unknown power.
- Methods
- Longitudinal lines along the proposed trench; cross-lines at fence gaps; metal survey kept for surface junk vs buried conduit.
- Constraints
- Historic scrap scatter produced hyperbola trains unrelated to utilities—called out as clutter sector; crew advised to keep hand digging near the house ell.
- Outcome
- Wide “likely corridor” band plus narrower high-confidence segment tied to a spring-set valve box; limitations reference report uncertainty patterns.
- Lessons
- Ask for well pit photos; if the line was pulled through trees roots decades ago, expect velocity headaches—antenna notes in frequency tradeoffs.