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What are easements?
When it comes to your property, it’s important to understand easements, which are legal rights that allow others to use parts of your land for specific purposes, like utilities or road access. Easements are established in various ways, including:
- Grant of Easement Document: Standard grant of easement or included in the patent or deed and recorded with the State Recorder’s Office.
- Platting Process: Defined uses dedicated by the plat, which is a plot of land.
- Road Right of Way: Established through a document or plat, for public or private use.
Road Right of Way
If you’ve noticed our flags in your yard, it’s likely marking the road right of way or back edge of easement. Although the road may seem narrow, rights of way can drastically vary in width. To confirm the right of way for your road, check your subdivision plat or document with the State Recorder’s Office. Remember: the visible road, ditches, and slopes don’t always define the actual boundaries.
Locates: Ensuring Safe Digging
Before any construction or digging begins, it’s essential to mark the locations of underground utilities to prevent accidental damage. The 811 Alaska Digline coordinates these efforts, ensuring that public utility lines are properly marked before excavation. A separate, private locator is required by the homeowner to ensure safety for private facilities like water lines, dog fences, unmarked or unknown private lines/features.
Once the locates are completed, the identified utilities are marked with color-coded paint on the ground. These markings will naturally wash away over time, typically within a few days. By adhering to these procedures, MTA helps maintain the integrity of essential services and ensures that construction projects proceed safely and efficiently.
What to Expect with the MTA Construction Process
MTA is committed to transparency and minimizing disruption during our infrastructure projects. Here’s how we handle construction:
- Surveying: Professional surveyors mark right-of-way lines and easements. Please keep these stakes in place until the project is complete.
- 811 Locates: We coordinate with Alaska Digline to ensure all underground public utility lines are marked before digging begins.
- Construction: Our process includes clearing vegetation, directional boring in paved areas, and installing underground facilities within the easement/right of way. Our new fiber facilities are encased in innerducts to reduce future disruptions to your property. Once connected, you’ll have access to speeds up to 1 Gig.
Service Drop Install: What to Expect
- Sturgeon Electric will install MTA underground service drops starting May 2025, continuing through the summer
- MTA will mark public utilities through 811, but property owners must mark private utilities and features
- Typical burial depth is 6–18 inches; crews choose the route based on terrain
- Two weeks’ notice will be given before plowing begins; priority is given to those with interrupted service
- Unmarked or unknown private lines/features are the owner’s responsibility
Frequently Asked Questions
Public locates involve marking utility lines owned by utility companies, coordinated through the 811 Alaska Digline. Private locates are necessary for personal installations like water lines or dog fences and require the homeowner to hire a private locator.
Larger trees will be cut into approximate six-foot sections and left within the outer edge of the easement. Although we are required to utilize utility easements, the trees belong to the property owner, and we do not have rights to take them. Smaller brush will be chipped and left for a vegetative mat.
Easements and rights of way are typically recorded in your property’s deed or subdivision plat, which you can find through the State Recorder’s Office. If you’re unsure, check these records or contact MTA for guidance.
Paint markings indicate the presence of underground utilities. These markings are temporary and will fade naturally, but they are crucial for guiding safe excavation.
Before starting construction, we will have the project area surveyed with stakes and flagging to identify clearing and project limits. Once the construction crews are complete, they will remove the staking.
Before construction, MTA will handle surveying and utility locates. Please have any private utility lines located before we begin, and leave survey stakes and flaggings in place until the project is complete. Private utility line examples: electric or gas lines to a shed, workshop, or greenhouse; water lines from a private well or community well, sewer lines to a septic system; drainage system, electric service lines from the remote meter to a building or hot tub, city water or sewer lines beyond the road rights-of-way or easement.
No, please leave survey stakes and flags in place until the construction project is fully completed. Removing them could disrupt the project and lead to inaccurate work.
You can access your property records through the State Recorder’s Office or reaching out to the local agency of jurisdiction. Please contact MTA for information specific to your location and our project area, or contact a Registered Land Surveyor for questions beyond our project limits.
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Reach out to our Right of Way Department at
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Helpful Resources
- 811 Alaska Digline: 811ak.com
- Alaska Department of Natural Resources - Recorder’s Office: Search Records
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough - Property Search: myproperty.matsugov.us
- Municipality of Anchorage - Property Search: property.muni.org
- Alaska DOT&PF ROW Research Map: Research Map