Not sure if this has been shared here before or not, but it was passed along to me this morning. Short and well done. IMO. Thanks to the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors for producing it.
They did a good job.?ÿ I certainly appreciate their effort.
Andy
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I serve as a State Geodetic Coordinator and more than half of the inquiries I receive are regarding monument destruction, or imperiled monuments. For the ones that have not yet been disturbed, our state has codified procedures for how to perpetuate the position(s) and what to file pre and post reset. If they are marks in the NGS database, there are also federal procedures to follow, including the published Bench Mark Reset Procedures if it is a vertical mark.
Unfortunately, the ones who contact me and/or the NGS Regional Geodetic Advisor after the mark has been removed asking something like "We are doing a street improvement project and found a survey monument. We removed it and set it aside. The work is done and we are ready to put it back. How do we do that?", there is little we can do, as the position has been lost, unless it was part of a level line where the adjacent marks still exist in original condition. For property corners, I tell them to ask the project surveyor if it was tied out prior to destruction and provide them with the appropriate code citations. I will sometimes follow up with the appropriate County Surveyor.
I plan to use this video to educate in a proactive sense, and to connect some dots for the folks who contact me as to why it is so important to protect or perpetuate survey monuments. I am hoping our state association will see this and produce something similar specific to our state.
