After a weekend of research and digging I had the PC pull another monument. It was an early on GPS monument and I thought there may be an outside chance it was a bad fix situation. It's 5' out of position for a W1/16th corner along a Section line. When he went out there to jerk it he found another monument at the correct position which was a plastic cap.?ÿ
The kicker was the offending monument was one of our own. I finally figured out how it happened after most of two days of going back over all the jobs connected to it. It was incorrectly tied to a survey of the section that had a 10 minute error in the bearing, and 2 feet in the distance. The bad thing was the error was corrected for a COS but the monument wasn't so it sat there for a long time unused till last week.?ÿ
Don't you just hate that feeling that comes when you realize it is your own bar that is in the wrong place?
It happens.?ÿ You can add an sh to the front of that if you so desire, because that is also true.
I have had a few scares in the past with a bad point of my own and it's always a panic attack when other surveys are tied to one with the bad corner.?ÿ It's always a relief to find out the problem has been isolated to one point but when you find one of your points out and several other surveys tied to it.
Most of my work is in the fastest growing town in the state.?ÿ We do mostly residential lots for demolition and reconstruction mixed with large residential projects, office high rises, schools and commercial centers.?ÿ Each of those jobs usually have several others tied to them so it's always a heart attack when something like this happens, followed by a day or two of checks and rechecks.
Always hope no one relied upon the location of that monument...
Yeah, that's the kicker.?ÿ
It was a Keystone Cop situation.?ÿ
A huge survey was completed with control, maps, design, ect.?ÿ
That was given to us to do the legal work which was extensive.?ÿ
We used the surveys to set property corners, mainly we were interested in a random line that wondered through a couple of dozen sections. Not so much about section breakdowns. Eventually we discovered a "bust" in the location for the 1/4 corner. Then we corrected "everything", but the 1/16th was left uncorrected. Basically forgot about it.?ÿ
Since there was the other monument and it fit within .08' of midpoint we were able to simply remove our offensive one.?ÿ
