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Height Modernization Project
August 17 - 19, 1999
Using state-of-the-art Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers and other specialized gear, geodesists and technicians from NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS) will take hundreds of measurements at the top of the monument.
www.ngs.noaa.gov/INFO/Washmon/ Updated: 08 Sept 2003
The Washington monument is 114 years old
and today it's getting a space age address"
Dr. D. James Baker, Administrator of NOAA
Top of Monument, 1999
Top of Monument, 1999
view of monument with scaffolding
Photo: National Park Service
Top of Monument, 1934
Top of Monument, 1934
For more information contact: 
 Roy Anderson

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