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Show BOR rushes moisture-measuring device to new home in Lady Liberty measure the data, and charts the information over a seven-day period. "It's gratifying to see the Excess Property Program saving the taxpayers- money," adds Paul Squires, supervisory supply specialist in UPO's Property and Procurement Branch, "by enabling federal agencies all over the country to utilize already existing property rather than making new purchases." Declared excess property only in March of this year, the device was reported on a nationwide computer listing circulated to agencies within the Department of the Interior and spoted by the National Park Service at Liberty Island, which owns the statue. Reclamation immediately responded to the National park Service request and shipped the device to the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site in Kin-derhook, Kin-derhook, N.Y., where it will be recalibrated and transplanted to its new home in the Lady. "Restoring America's favorite Lady for her 100th anniversary included not only school kids, engineers and a host of reconstruction recon-struction experts," reports P. Kirt Carpenter, projects manager over U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Utah Projects Office in Provo, "but also an important component from Reclamation. "Our office unexpectedly got involved in the Miss Liberty restoration project last week," says Carpenter, "when we shipped a surplus hygrothermograph to New York for installation inside the statue, to measure temperature and relative humidity. "One of the primary factors contributing to the early deterioration of the statue was the moisture condensation on the inside which led to a series of reactions that eventually produced small holes over the copper surface, which in turn let in more water. "We've used these instruments in the past at Reclamation weather stations for collecting cclimatological data that is valuable in planning dams and reservoirs in Utah. "This device uses sensors that |
