True Line Company
Land Surveyors · Since 1977
About

True Line Company, Land Surveyors

Mission

True Line Company was founded to provide a full range of surveying and land planning services in the private, commercial, and industrial sectors. Our strongest asset is the broad and diversified background of our staff that totals more than 50 years experience. In achieving surveying excellence, we believe that good communication, attention to details, and relating well to people are just as important as transmitting accurate designs, numbers, and technical data.

Paul Glenn Jones, Sr., P.S., founder and owner of True Line Company

Paul Glenn Jones, Sr., P.S.

Owner and Professional Surveyor

Work experience

Licensed in
Tennessee and Georgia
Practicing since
1969
Founded True Line
August 1977

Performing: Boundary Surveys, As-Built Surveys, ALTA/ACSM Land Title Surveys, Vertical and Horizontal Control Surveys, Construction Layout Surveys, Site Contour Design, Planning/Design/Surveying for Subdivision, Flood Elevations and Certificates, Plot Plans, Mapping Services, Consultation, Legal Description, and Expert Witness Testimony.

Education

1967 graduate of Clermont N.E. High School. Two-year C.E.T. degree at Ohio College of Applied Science (1969), now a branch of the University of Cincinnati. Continuing education as required by the State Board: Technical Standards; Legal Descriptions; Flood Plain Management; Wetlands; NGS Coordinate Transformation; Ethics; Business Management Practices; Sedimentation and Erosion Control, and more.

Skills, activities, languages

Consultation; Research; Field Surveys; Computations; CAD; Site Inspection(s); Preparation of Legal Descriptions and Reports.

References

  • March Adams & Associates
    310 Dodds Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37404
  • Barry L. Abbot · Cavett & Abbott, PLLC
    801 Broad Street, Ste. 428, Chattanooga, TN 37402
  • E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company
    4501 North Access Road, Chattanooga, TN 37415
  • James L. Henry, Esquire
    412 Broad Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402
  • Richard Ward
    8615 Hixson Pike, Hixson TN 37343

Major projects

A selection of representative work across nearly five decades of practice.

Industrial

  • Du Pont's Chattanooga Plant — since 1983: boiler ash landfill design, boundary & topography surveys, ground water monitoring well location, utility easement surveys, drainage studies, flake blender as-built, T-95 Nylon plant construction layout, horizontal & vertical control monuments, tax abatement mapping, ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey
  • National Spinning Company-Caron Knitting Plant, LaFayette, GA — ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey, FEMA finished floor elevation certificate
  • Weyerhauser Corporation's Cleveland, TN box plant and warehouse — ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey

Governmental / Defense

  • Raytheon's Missile Testing Facility at Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant, Chattanooga, TN — precision control survey and baseline monumentation established with solar and Polaris observations
  • United States Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center, Chattanooga, TN — construction layout
  • Catoosa County Jail, Ringgold, GA — construction layout

Institutional

  • Lee University, Cleveland, TN — boundary, topography, construction layout, campus-wide drainage study, as-built surveys
  • Arcon Medical Center (now Erlanger) — topography survey, boundary survey and subdivision plat, construction layout, in-progress utility location and ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey, final as-built/ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey
  • Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA — boundary surveys, construction layout

Commercial

  • Ingle's Shopping Center, Trenton, GA — boundary, topography, subdivision record plat, construction layout, final as-built
  • Ingle's Shopping Center, Ringgold, GA — boundary, topography, subdivision record plat, construction layout
  • Mill Creek Shopping Center, Dalton, GA — boundary, topography, subdivision record plat, final as-built
  • Dallas Bay Executive Center — boundary & as-built surveys, topography, underground/buried facility investigation, site planning, construction layout, sewer line surveys, project management, consultation, reporting, agency coordination

Flood study surveys

  • Black Branch, Fort Oglethorpe, GA
  • Daisy-Dallas Creek, Hixson, TN — for hydraulic analysis by T.V.A.

Residential subdivisions

  • Clift Mill Estates, Soddy-Daisy, TN
  • Summitt Estates, Ringgold, GA
  • Forest Shadows, Chattanooga, TN
  • Elder Mountain Estates, Chattanooga, TN
  • Signal Forest, Walden, TN

Utility surveys

  • BellSouth — commercial & residential easement surveys
  • Dade County, GA, Water and Sewer Authority — easement survey
  • Geodetic Associates — fiber optic easement consultation and surveys
  • Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, TN — boundary survey for substation

Miscellaneous

  • WSMC Radio, Mowbray Mountain, TN tower site — boundary & topography, construction layout, as-built, precision antennae alignment
  • WTVC Channel Nine Television, Signal Mountain tower site — construction layout and elevations
  • Lawrence Reeve Property, Hamby Road, Soddy-Daisy, TN — aerial photogrammetry control survey
  • Georgia State Route No. 136, slide area repair retaining wall — control surveying for right-of-way, centerline and baseline; elevation cross-section survey; construction layout; in-progress as-built surveys of wall and cap; final as-built