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A couple of recovered monuments
1/4 corner:
Section corner 1/2 mile north of 1/4:
It’s always nice to find stones marked like this, leaving no doubt about the corner.
I was surveying next to an early GPS project I did almost 20 years ago. One of the first remote areas I used a local CORS to bring in my control values. Problem now is that there isn’t anyway to really check my new set-ups. The old CORS have been removed. Yesterday I was running around checking monuments and I was seeing .03′ as the max horizontal “miss”. These newer RTK systems are freakishly accurate. Even checking my twenty year old surveys I’m seeing about .05-0.1′ max. And that’s to the top of old stones.
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Probably better work on hydration- pee looks a bit dark on that 1/4 corner???? seriously though- were they loose? They don??t appear to have a ground line mark on them
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Ha, the heat is hitting me hard, I guess since it was snowing a couple of weeks ago upper 80’s and hot sun is my limit.
The section corner was buried, but not set, the 1/4 was loose, but if you stood it up keeping the bottom in place it left the 1/4 on the west face and the stone at the P.I. of two fence lines so I put the brass cap there and buried the stone alongside. The section corner is at a fence corner, I put the cap at the “bottom” of the stone again which places it .5′ or so east of the fence corner.
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Sounds like good work to me. How much moisture in the ground do you have? Looks pretty green, but still early in the month. Days are starting to heat up around here, days of brown, dust, and smoke are just 4 weeks out.
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It is very green here, we didn’t brown up last year until September and some places that are always dry were green till late fall. I was told we had 8″ of moisture in May, rivers are full, some flooding, the unusual thing is they are still bank full in many places and even one is back to flooding this afternoon.
If this holds through the summer it will be three cool wet summers in a row, I’m not complaining about that. Would love to see it as a long term trend.
We have a client that wanted to buy then break up a piece of property, looking at it before he bought was a surprise that much of it was in the Flood plain on the FEMA maps, Zone AE. Trying to explain that it’s a problem when all he is hearing is that it never floods there was frustrating, he is hearing that it hasn’t in 60 plus years, that it will never flood,,,,,,,,,,well,,,,,,,,,this year it did flood and the good thing is that we got to trace out the high water line and got some good data. It was an eye opener for seller and buyer.
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Hard data is a beautiful thing.
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