Monumentation 

Monuments are surveyed points whose coordinates have been established, verified, and published for future use by the engineering and surveying communities.  In December of 2006, the GIS Work Group completed a report recommending an increase in the number of number of geodetic control monuments within Cecil County.  (To view a copy of the report, please click here). 

With funds made available in July 2008 via a grant from the Office of Economic Adjustment, the County has contracted with GW Stephens and Associates to install and bluebook approximately 112 monuments throughout the County.  All monuments shall be installed within road rights of way or on other publicly owned property. 

Once complete in June of 2009, the monumentation efforts, known as a densification of monumentation, will:

1)      Support surveying, engineering, and GIS (geographic information systems) applications being conducted within the County;

2)      Create a common, consistent, and accurate surveyed reference system;

3)      Provide surveyors with a referenced coordinate system for new projects;

4)      Improve data accuracy such that relationships to other mapped data contained in the County's geographic information systems database can be shown with more confidence and reliability;

5)      Create a form of infrastructure needed to support current and future needs of both public sector entities and private landowners and businesses; and 

6)      Supplement the continually operated reference station (CORS) installed at the Seneca Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in April of 2007.