[BC] asking People questions....

[Margaret Bryant]

I recall hearing a story about a station that had a monitor point along a 
stretch of road that had no useful landmarks. So the CE painted a mark on 
the road so he would know where the monitor point was. One day he parked 
down the road in his usual spot and walked down the road to his monitor 
point. While he was walking he noticed the road has been repaved and his 
painted mark was covered up. He walked back and forth where he thought the 
monitor point was trying to figure out where it might have been. (Probably 
one of those long ago poorly documented points!)  As he was walking up and 
down the road he noticed a piece of paper stuck on the fence by the side of 
the road. He looked and it was a note from the lady down the road and it 
was addressed to the man who came by once a month with his machine. She 
wanted him to know where his mark used to be!

One station I worked at had several monitor points with very outdated 
descriptions. Trying to find them the first time was difficult. None were 
along the road, most were in a field or other place not near a road. Many a 
time we knocked on a door of someone living nearby to see if they 
remembered anyone coming by on the regular basis taking measurements. More 
often than not, someone could tell us where the person  stood.

Margaret