Surveyor X

Bruce Small · 2015-07-31T02:40:00Z

In 1999 Surveyor A did an ALTA survey on a shopping center in a somewhat difficult part of Tucson. Surveyor A is known as a meticulous boundary surveyor. In his view the boundary is either right, or wrong. If it is wrong it does not go out until it is right. Period. Surveyor A found brass disks in handwells at the street intersections. Around 2012 the department of transportation repaved the street and was supposed to reset the brass disks in the handwells, but the inspector was asleep on the job, so only the handwells were set. There are rocks in the bottom of them, but no brass disks. In 2013 I was driving by the site and saw a survey crew from Phoenix surveying for a new gas station in the corner of the shopping center. They drew my attention because they were finding or setting monuments with a GPS rover without a bipod under a large billboard. I told the Surveyor X that there was a previous ALTA survey available, but he made it clear he was not interested. In 2014 I saw his boundary survey. He had opened the handwells, saw a rock in the bottom, called it a stone, and used the ÛÏstonesÛ for the boundary. I gave Surveyor X a phone call and reminded him I had offered to share the 1999 survey drawing with him, explained that was a rock in the bottom of the handwell, it was not a boundary stone, and the information he showed did not match the previous ALTA survey by two tenths. I was there last week to look for monuments so I could do an ALTA survey on the site. I found Surveyor AÛªs monuments on the shopping center, and I also found in plain sight crowÛªs foot references to the previous brass disks in handwells on the curbs or walks in each quadrant. When intersected they match Surveyor AÛªs distances to one hundredth. What would you do, if anything, about Surveyor X.

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Is it against state regulations to destroy monuments? If so, your first call or action should be to the State DOT and/or board. Around here that would be a clear violation and something a board could get behind. Not sure you will have much luck on reporting surveyor X, but if you and the others in the area keep reporting to the board about his less-than-stellar surveying they may eventually look into his body of work?

Posted : August 3, 2015 1:23 pm

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