I've often wondered about local activists and gadflies, you know, the ones who stay on top of local happenings and generally raise Cain. I never thought I would be one.
The county recently repaved all of the streets in our large subdivision, roughly 430 at least one-acre lots. The streets were chip sealed years ago, but basically the pavement is the original from 1972. Paul Cella's original brass caps are in the streets, or were.
The paving contractor had a surveyor reference all of the brass caps, then come back after paving and place a PK nail where the brass cap was, with four PK RPs. It was supposed to be done accurately, of course, but he took one rover shot before and one rover shot after. From that new PK he set four RPs, then the contractor ripped out a square block and put in a new brass cap in a block of concrete. I found some areas that had not been ripped out and used a chisel to cut through the pavement to expose the original brass cap, still there. Guess what, a string across the RPs misses the original brass caps. The one shown doesn't even fall on the cap. So sad that an accurate location of most of the original brass caps is gone forever.
Take a look at the asphalt thickness, which is supposed to be 1.5 inches minimum. I make it at one inch.
Rename the large collection of lots "Pincushion City"??????
Nail both hides up on your wall as trophies.
B-)
Those of us in smaller areas have the privilege of trying to educate dozens of public entities on the absolute need for monument preservation, especially as so many of our monuments fall in street rights-of-way. We must be proactive about this and ever vigilant. One nearby county road and bridge director called one day to chew my tail for digging a hole in his newly paved road (finished the day before) which had been a gravel road previously. He quickly learned he was the one deserving to have his tail chewed. Ever since, he has been super to deal with.
Let me guess - Southern Arizona Paving....
Dang, you're good.
Wasn't there any county surveyor etc oversight on the paving contractor's procedures?
IMHO, we should follow Twain's advise and trade the appropriately-acronymed SAP for a dog.....
..... and then shoot the dog.
The county surveyor wasn't told about the project and had no input, unfortunately. He is trying to straighten out the mess.