+billwallace Posted March 7, 2011 Posted March 7, 2011 Ever find the witness post but not the mark? Does it happen enough to not be considered rare? This happened to me this weekend with FV0476. There is a witness post very near the listed coordinates. The witness post and fenceline are a few feet further from the road centerline than the description implies so I widened my search because something has moved. Just couldn't come up with the monument/mark. Quote
+Rotareneg Posted March 7, 2011 Posted March 7, 2011 I had one where it was under about 6" of sandy dirt. Gave up the first time and then dug it out on the second visit: And another where the surface mark was missing and the underground mark was at the bottom of a hole: Quote
TillaMurphs Posted March 7, 2011 Posted March 7, 2011 We have only run across this one time. It was at PA0163. Our speculation was that grading or underground cable burial might have destroyed the mark but left the witness post. We searched per the description and probed all over but came up empty. Quote
+billwallace Posted March 7, 2011 Author Posted March 7, 2011 Hmmm .. I dug down about four or five inches = sometimes I get in a hurry when I'm out there, don't know why I do that. Definitely going back to look for that one. Quote
southpawaz Posted March 7, 2011 Posted March 7, 2011 Yes, I remember missing one when I misread the bearing of the call to the witness post, and the monumentation style was one I hadn't seen before. It was a brass cap on a pipe, below grade with a threaded PVC sleeve and a plug screwed into the top: CG0868. Quote
+Harry Dolphin Posted March 7, 2011 Posted March 7, 2011 Yeah. There's a series (A through U 364) on Rte 209 between Stroudsburg and Milford PA set in 1978. Mostly disk on stainless steel rod. I've seen a number of the witness posts. The problem is that they are a bit underground, and this is the Delaware Water Gap NRA. No metal detectors or digging permitted. Most of the things in the original description have disappeared since the NRA bought the land. No telephone poles anymore. Most places, I'm lucky to see witness posts. Here I can see the witness posts, but cannot find the marks. Oh, well. Quote
AZcachemeister Posted March 9, 2011 Posted March 9, 2011 Yes, this has happened to me maybe 3-5...(or possibly even more) times. VERY irritating. Quote
+billwallace Posted March 13, 2011 Author Posted March 13, 2011 Yeay ... I don't feel skunked .. Quote
+JL_HSTRE Posted August 22, 2011 Posted August 22, 2011 Spotted a witness post last week that seemed new, but couldn't find a benchmark by the post and there was nothing in the NGS database at that location. FWIW, the witness post was up against a storm drain. Quote
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