What is the purpose of witness monuments?

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What is the purpose of witness monuments?

Witness monuments are used to witness the location of a boundary corner when the actual monument is large or indefinite and cannot be measured to within the required positional accuracy. They provide a secondary reference that a surveyor can locate later to re-establish the corner and tie in lines, preserving the boundary’s position even if the primary monument isn’t precisely measurable. This isn’t about marking property corners themselves, identifying a surveyor’s reference line alone, or indicating the end of a survey line.

Witness monuments are used to witness the location of a boundary corner when the actual monument is large or indefinite and cannot be measured to within the required positional accuracy. They provide a secondary reference that a surveyor can locate later to re-establish the corner and tie in lines, preserving the boundary’s position even if the primary monument isn’t precisely measurable. This isn’t about marking property corners themselves, identifying a surveyor’s reference line alone, or indicating the end of a survey line.

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