Maine Coast Surveying & Flood Consultants

Maine Coast Surveying & Flood Consultants is a surveyor in Portland, Maine. The firm provides professional land surveying, GPS and GIS mapping, floodplain services, and underground utility location for people buying, selling, subdividing, evaluating, or improving real estate. Maine Coast Surveying was founded in 1979 and grew into one of Lincoln County's largest surveying firms serving the mid-coast region. In 2016 it was acquired by Jim Nadeau, owner of Nadeau Land Surveys, and it serves areas from Down East Maine to New Hampshire. The team includes three licensed State of Maine Professional Land Surveyors, survey support staff, and an Education Coordinator. As a division of Nadeau Land Surveys, the company performs underground utility location under the name AAB (Above And Below) Utility Locating, field locating utilities with GPS and mapping their location and elevation. Projects have included an existing conditions survey in Falmouth Foreside, boundary and topographic work and construction layout at South Portland High School, headstone rehabilitation at the Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery, and elevation data collection in Cape Elizabeth, Windham, and on Chebeague Island. The firm publishes the Welcome to the Flood Zone newsletter and the Beyond the Boundary educational series, and its staff have written articles for The American Surveyor magazine. Jim Nadeau holds the Certified Floodplain Manager, Certified Floodplain Surveyor, and Associate in National Flood Insurance designations. The office sits on Brighton Avenue, about a quarter mile from Breakwater School, Nasons Corner, Jewell Falls, and Nason's Corner Park.