Company Profile - Chastain & Associates

Business Practice

Georgia Professional Corporation
Office of operations at 288 North Main Street, Ellijay, Georgia 30540
Georgia Land Surveying Firm Certificate of Authorization #LSF000781
Tennessee Professional Registration No. 1937
North Carolina Professional Land Surveying Firm #C-3198

Key Personnel

Mark E. Chastain, President
  • AS Civil Engineering Technology 1990 - Southern College of Technology (now SPSU)
  • Professional Land Surveyor - Licensed in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina
  • Georgia Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (2003-present)
  • Georgia Licensed Residential/Light Commercial Contractor
  • Georgia Soil & Water Conservation Commission Certified Design Professional
  • Gilmer County Surveyor 2000-2004
  • Gilmer County Board of Commissioners (Chairman 2009-2010, Post 2 2005-2008)
  • Northwest Georgia Regional Commission Charter Member (2009-2010)
  • Georgia Secretary of State Advisory Panel on Disputed County Lines
  • Admitted as Expert Witness in Appalachian, Conasauga, and Enotah Judicial Circuits (GA)
Jason Watkins, Field Operations Supervisor
  • BS Surveying and Mapping 2008 Southern Polytechnic State University
  • Registered Professional Land Surveyor - Georgia
Russell W. Howard, ALTA Surveys and Right of Ways
  • BS Anthropology Georgia Southern University
  • Surveying Certificate Southern Polytechnic State University
  • Transportation Director - Gilmer County 2009-2010
  • Registered Professional Land Surveyor - Georgia
Jeff Vick, Boundary Surveys and Site Plans
  • BS Surveying and Mapping 2011 Southern Polytechnic State University
  • Georgia LSIT Certificate
Donna Chastain, Financial Officer

Donna has been with the company in many capacities since 1996. She studied economics at Reinhardt College and has several years of banking experience.

Dusty Lowman, GIS Consultant
  • BS Surveying and Mapping 2008 Southern Polytechnic State University
  • Registered Professional Land Surveyor - Georgia
  • GIS and Stormwater Management Department, City of Kennesaw
  • Georgia Soil & Water Conservation Commission Certified Design Professional
Chris Chastain, NPDES compliance and Site Planning/Permitting Consultant
  • AAS Instrumentation Technology, TCCC Murphy, NC
  • Surveying studies Middle Georgia College
  • Georgia Soil & Water Conservation Commission Certified Level 2 Plan Reviewer