Tell me...please tell me that no one is that stupid.
Don’t forget it’s the government we’re talking about here, it’s only the taxpayers money.
Wonder how many times they said “close enough for government work” while building that project?
They probably used illegals to build it! They’re smarter than people give them credit for!
To correct the mistake - it will be our cost!
Happens all the time in remote areas. It’s like the case they mentioned here, many years ago some one put up a fence and claimed that was the boundary. A lot of deeds now refernce that fence or describe property that streches from ‘Farmer Jone’s old oak tree’. That tree hasn’t been there for a hundred years.
Surveyers rely on old fences since that is where people have believed the boundaries to be for years. No surveyer is going to risk a law suit by ‘moving’ the boundary where it should be.
And, yes, I know this isn’t right. I ran surveys for the state on highway projects when I was in college. We measured to the nearest 100th of a foot. We could run across 10 miles of mountains and hit a point within a foot. Up here, I wouldn’t trust a survey being closer than 100 feet.