Maricopa County (County) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Stubing. Erik Steinbach.

The project consists of the replacement of improvements to a storm drainage system and catch basins. Ground disturbance within the APE consisted of the excavation of trenches and pits of various lengths, widths, and depths. Excavation was conducted mechanically with backhoes and by hand with shovels and picks. All ground-disturbing activities within the project site and 250 ft. of its boundaries were monitored. The project was conducted under the direction of Mark Chenault (project manager) and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Erik Steinbach.

The project consisted of improvements to existing storm drains and the relocation of a gas pipeline. The COP Archaeology Office reviewed this project and provided recommendations in a December 23, 2011 Archaeological Assessment Form. The form notes that the project is located entirely within the archaeological site of AZ T:12:256 (ASM)/Grand Canal Ruins, a large habitation site that contains pithouses, canals, and human remains. The COP Archaeology Office recommended that monitoring be conducted...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alexandra Howard. Daniel H. Sorrell.

This document reports the results of archaeological monitoring conducted for a City of Phoenix (COP) rehabilitation project. Through its contractor, and utilizing funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the COP Neighborhood Services Department (NSD) conducted manual excavations to install irrigation and remove vegetation at the project site. During a review of the project, the COP Archaeology Office at Pueblo Grande Museum (PGM) determined that excavations...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kevin Frison. T. Kathleen Henderson. Thomas A. Prang.

Desert  Archaeology, Inc., under contract to the Salt River Project (SRP), has completed archaeological monitoring of trench and other excavations for a new buried 69kV conduit associated with the new Shaw Substation. The substation is located southwest of the southwest corner of the intersection of Lower Buckeye Road and Fifty-ninth Avenue, within the Phoenix, Arizona city limits. The excavations were conducted primarily by SRP West Valley Distribution Design, and consisted of 289 m of backhoe...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Josephine Merewether.

In October 1988, construction began on the Priest Road bridge at the Western Canal. The City of Tempe is widening the bridge and thet Salt River project (SRP), in conjunction with this construction, is putting a new 21-in. sewer line and a water line across the canal west of Priest Road. At the request of Judy Brunson, SRP archaeologist, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) monitored the excavation of the backhoe trench for the sewer line across the canal.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey T. Jones.

In response to a recommendation by the City of Phoenix Archaeology Department, the City of Phoenix Street Transportation Department contracted with Tierra Right of Way Services, Ltd. (Tierra), to conduct archaeological monitoring of trenching within 15 m (50 feet) north and south of a projected prehistoric canal alignment mapped in the early 1900s. Monitoring of the stormwater trench excavations found no evidence of the prehistoric canal, suggesting that the projected alignment of the canal is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert B. Neily.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) monitored the realignment of the 1100 and 1103 pipelines across the Gila River below Gillespie Dam. The work was performed to determine if any buried archaeological deposits or features were present within the boundaries of previously recorded sites and to mitigate the effects of the project on such features. The work was conducted at the request of El Paso Natural Gas Company (EPNG) and based on recommendations resulting from the initial survey of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Terry Coriell.

Archaeological monitoring was conducted during subsurface construction activities associated with the relocation of a portion of the Utah Extension (AZ U:9:254 [ASM]) within the City of Mesa. Construction procedures consisted of excavating a trench approximately 0.2 miles (0.31 kilometers) long and four feet (1.22 meters) wide along an alleyway north of and downslope from the Utah Extension. Additional excavations included six areas: one at each end of the trench , one near the approximate...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rebecca Hill.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during lot maintenance activities. The project involved the removal of weeds using hula hoes and an electric weed trimmer and the raking of leaves. Ground disturbance was limited to the crushed landscaping granite previously placed on the surface. As the property is located within the 50-ft buffer zone of a projected alignment of an unnamed prehistoric canal, LSD was requested to monitor ground disturbing activities. No artifacts or...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Korri Turner.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring of ground disturbance associated with the installation of playground equipment at Sueño Park. The monitoring was conducted by Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. (Jacobs) at the request Dr. Todd Bostwick, former City of Phoenix (COP) Archaeologist, as Pueblo Grande Museum (PGM) Project No. 2010-2 under an existing on-call archaeological services agreement (Contract No. 128663). The COP Cost Center number for this project is PA75200218. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward M. Fortier.

Between January 22 and February 9, 1979, Edward M. Fortier of Archaeological Research Services completed six days of archaeological monitoring of a fuel dike construction project at the Salt River Project Kyrene Generating Station. The construction area consists of a parcel of land 1080 ft. east-west by 480 ft. north-south in size. Two fuel oil tanks are located within this fenced parcel. This monitoring project was performed on behalf of Salt River Project, Phoenix, Arizona, in order to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark R. Hackbarth.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed an archaeological monitoring effort for the Salt River Project (SRP) in Mesa, Arizona. Monitoring of construction work was conducted over the course of three partial days, from March 31 to April 2, 1997 by one archaeologist. Roughly nine person-hours were expended during the fieldwork. The proposed SRP project area was the location for a new well site, which replaced an abandoned well located within the newly expanded right-of-way for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark R. Hackbarth.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed an archaeological monitoring effort for the Salt River Project (SRP) in Mesa, Arizona. Monitoring of construction work was conducted over the course of three partial days, from March 31 to April 2, 1997 by one archaeologist. Roughly nine person-hours were expended during the fieldwork.The proposed SRP project area was the location for a new well site, which replaced an abandoned well located within the newly expanded ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Q. Bustoz. Glen E. Rice.

This is the report on the results of archeological monitoring of the excavation of a trench for a pipe to relocate an SRP irrigation lateral near the site of Pueblo del Alamo in Phoenix, Arizona. K. Hovnanian, in conjunction with a housing development project, sought to realign the lateral and replace it with a subterranean pipe; that action led them to comply with Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the State of Arizona Statute A.R.S. 41-865 and the City of Phoenix...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John T. Marshall.

Northland Research, Inc. was hired by the Salt River Project to perform archaeological monitoring for their expansion of the existing culvert within a portion of the Grand Canal near Pueblo Grande National Historic Landmark. The project area is outside the site boundaries. The canal is owned by the Bureau of Reclamation and administered by the Salt River Project. The construction activities were limited to the previously disturbed area. To ensure that there was no inadvertent impacts,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Lindly. Michael S. Foster. Douglas R. Mitchell. Cara Schmidt.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring at a project area located at the northeast comer of Kyrene and Elliot Roads in Tempe, Arizona. The monitoring was conducted during waterline construction and landscaping around the Kyrene Generating Station at the request of Salt River Project. The project area is located adjacent to and within the boundaries of the Hohokam village site of Los Guanacos (AZ U:9:116 [ASM]), located in Section 10, T1S R4E, Gila and Salt River Baseline...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John T. Marshall.

The document presents the results of archaeological monitoring at the Salt River Project (SRP) Lassen Substation in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. The work was conducted by Northland Research, Inc. for SRP and entailed monitoring for their expansion of utility lines along the Western Canal beginning at Lassen Substation. The project area is located within La Ciudad de Los Hornos (Los Hornos), a Hohokam site. Lassen Substation is on land owned by SRP; the Western Canal and right-of-way is owned...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Stubing.

The project consists of replacement of a water main and selected fire hydrants. Ground disturbance within the project area consisted of the excavation of trenches and pits of various lengths, widths, and depths. Excavation was conducted mechanically with backhoes and by hand with shovels and picks. During the course of the project, three areas that were recommended for monitoring were excavated and backfilled by the contractor without prior notification to Jacobs. Because the trenches in these...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James B. Rodgers.

Under contract with the Flood Control District of Maricopa County, Scientific Archeological Services has just completed an archeological monitoring investigation along the western bank of the Old Crosscut Canal in eastern Phoenix, Arizona. The purpose of this study was to relocate and evaluate the potential significance of AZ U:9:100 NRI. This archival site designates a poorly known locus of prehistoric Hohokam artifacts that was originally recorded in 1986 and is now threatened to be impacted...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jill Heilman.

This document reports the results of archaeological monitoring programs implemented for a City of Phoenix (COP) water line improvement project (COP Cost Center No. WS85500270). Through B & F Contracting, the COP Street Transportation Department installed water mains, fire hydrants, and residential water laterals. Archaeological monitoring failed to uncover any prehistoric or historic remains. No further archaeological investigation is recommended.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jill Heilman.

This document reports the results of an archaeological monitoring program implemented for a City of Phoenix (COP) storm drain installation project (COP Cost Center No. ST83140040) in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. Through its contractor, Hunter Contracting Company, the COP Street Transportation Department removed and replaced existing storm drains and related features, including connector pipes, pipe plugs, pipe supports, check valves, catch basins, and so on. They also removed and replaced...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jodi Strohmayer.

This report presents the results of an archaeological monitoring program carried out under the provisions and procedures outlined in the survey report and archaeological monitoring and discovery plan (Strohmayer 2005a), which was approved by SRP, ASLD, SHPO, and ASM. The monitoring program was a historic preservation mitigation measure implemented at multiple portions of the project area where new poles were installed within the boundaries of eligible or potentially eligible archaeological sites...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alexandra Howard. Daniel H. Sorrell.

At the request of NSD and PGM, EcoPlan completed an archaeological monitoring program in association with manual excavations conducted for the installation of granite ground cover within the boundaries of NRHP-eligible site AZ T:12:70 (ASM)/Pueblo Patricio and recommended NRHP-eligible AZ T:12:217 (ASM)/ the Dennis Addition in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. No archaeological materials were identified. No further archaeological work is necessary at this time. Additional cultural resource...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel H. Sorrell.

Through its contractor, and utilizing funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the COP Neighborhood Services Department (NSD) conducted manual excavations to expose a water meter connection in eastern Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. During a review of the project, the COP Archaeology Office at PGM determined that excavations associated with the proposed improvement project could encounter subsurface deposits associated with AZ U:9:67 (ASM)/La Lomita. For this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Korri Turner. Jewel Touchin.

The COP Archaeology office reviewed the project and provided recommendations in an August 20, 2008 Archaeological Assessment. The COP Archaeology Assessment notes that the eastern edge of the project area located in an area that has been disturbed by prior utility installations. Several prehistoric canals have been previously recorded within the project area. In addition, segments of the Maricopa Canal and the South Branch of the Maricopa Canal are located along the northeastern and southern...