Destroyed Benchmark

[+Spoo]

Check out my pictures of a destroyed Benchmark.

 

OC0592

[Bill93]

link: OC0592

 

If you report this to Deb Brown at NGS, with pictures proving destroyed, she will probably give you permission to keep the disk as a souvenir. Several such instances have been reported here. But you are going to have to act fast before someone reads your log and grabs it.

[Difficult Run]

Good work in finding the disk.

 

Since the benchmark has clearly been disturbed, the disk itself has no value in terms of elevation. I would place the disk in a secure location until the NGS has reviewed your report and logged it as destroyed.

 

(Edited for grammar)

Edited May 29, 2005 by Difficult Run

[+BilboB]

I would have grabbed it first, reported it and returned it if needed. Would be a nice souvenir. Too far of a drive for me...you're lucky.

[+Crystal Sound]

I've found similar recently. A USGS Pipe Cap - JY0578

 

I debated for about 5 minutes whether or not to take the top of the pipe and cap with me when I found it. I decided that since the point was truly destroyed, the remains were of no value. I sent a report and photos to Deb Brown, and was told I could keep it if I wished.

 

A friend of mine currently has possesion of the remains. He's going to cut the pipe off close to the cap, and I'm going to make a paperweight out of it.

[+BuckBrooke]

I've run across 4 discs, still embedded in their concrete monuments this spring, three along I-25 (1 in a grassy bridge median and 2 well off the road) and one in a quiet area of Santa Fe. As long as they're away from cities/towns, I think they survive pretty well here. I've found several monument remains, sans disc, here in Albuquerque, so...

Edited June 6, 2005 by BuckBrooke

[+bushwackin' schmo]

Check out the photo here, I wonder if anyone grabbed the marker.

 

KV3703

Edited June 13, 2005 by bushwackin' schmo