Triangulation Station - Kettle River at Lake Roosevelt, WA
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member T0SHEA
N 48° 40.468 W 118° 06.998
11U E 417796 N 5391870
This Triangulation Station will be found at the railway bridge over the Kettle River just west of where it meets the Columbia River.
Waymark Code: WMRK5M
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 07/02/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Ernmark
Views: 2

The station is in the top of the concrete abutment on the northwest corner of the bridge, quite easy to spot. It is marked simply "Bureau of Reclamation Triangulation Station", with no numbers or date. It appears in neither the NGS nor the Geocaching database.

The bridge was built in 1941, so the station could be of any age post 1941. Other than people having hammered on it, likely with rocks (I wonder why people would do that), the station is in good condition. It's a standard brass disc, set into the concrete of the abutment.

This bridge is the last one which crosses the Kettle River before it empties into Lake Roosevelt, which is actually the reservoir formed in the Columbia River by the Grand Coulee Dam, also completed in 1941.
Condition: Mark found in good condition

Designation: -blank-

Benchmark Agency: Bureau of Reclamation

Monumentation type: TRIANGULATION STATION Disk

County: Ferry County

USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Okanogan

Find type: Found by luck/skill/knowledge

Benchmark Agency (if other): Not listed

Monumentation type (if other): Not listed

Special category (optional): Not listed

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NGS PID: Not listed

Local database's URL (optional): Not listed

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