Compton Municipal Code § 20-1 Datum Plane

[Ord. #856, § 7100]

For the purpose of establishing and designating the official grades of the streets and alleys of the City, sea level is hereby declared to be the datum plane of the City, and as the permanent bench mark within the City, whose altitude above the sea level has been ascertained, and the following is hereby adopted as the official bench mark of the City: the top of a three inch pipe with metal cap and having been set by the United States Geodetic Survey and known to be solid and set opposite the Southern Pacific depot on the easterly line thereof and within the right-of-way of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the bench mark being the elevation of 67.0 feet above datum plane.