When a decision to lease
or conveyance of State-owned tidelands is approved, an
Alaska State Tideland Survey is required. The first step
in the process is a written request for survey instructions
to be issued. To be included in this letter:
- Your name and address
- The location of the tidelands applied
for, along with the ADL casefile number.
- The name and address of your surveyor.
The surveyor is required to be a Professional
Land Surveyor registered in Alaska.
- Survey Instruction fee of $225.
In the majority of tideland surveys, at
least a portion of the survey involves surveying the
boundary between the tidelands and the uplands. This
involves determining the location of the Mean High Water
line. Download the 2002
Survey Conference paper for
more information on Alaska Tideland Surveys, including
a description of the proper procedure for locating
the MHW line.
After the survey, plats must be submitted
to the DNR Survey Unit for review. The review fee is
$200 for the first parcel plus $50 for each additional
parcel, tract or lot created by the survey. For a list
of the survey fees covered by regulation, see
this link.
