Sonoran Desert (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven D. Shelley. Jeffrey Altschul.

The results of data recovery conducted for the Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Region at six prehistoric sites in the Hart Mine and Cibola Quarry areas are presented in this report. The Bureau of Reclamation plans to use the Hart Mine and Cibola Quarry areas to mine rip-rap for use along the Colorado River. The project area is located at the base of the Trigo mountains about 20 miles south of Ehrenberg, Arizona. Three of the sites are composed primarily of lithic debitage and cores. These...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph A. Ezzo. David B. Tucker.

In April 2007, SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) completed archaeological testing of seven sites on 1,896 acres of privately owned land for the proposed Villages of Tortolita development. The proposed development area is located north of the Town of Marana in Pima and Pinal counties. This testing was conducted that followed a treatment plan developed at the request of Mr. Shane Graser of TMR Investors, LLC. The total proposed Villages of Tortolita development area has been previously...

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Between July 18 and August 15, 2005, SWCA Environmental Consultants conducted Phase II archaeological data recovery at AZ EE:1:145 (ASM), AZ EE:1:146 (ASM), and AZ EE:1:149 (ASM), on the Arizona School Facilities Board (ASFB) property in Rancho Sahuarita, Town of Sahuarita, Pima County, Arizona. The project was conducted through a contractual agreement with ASFB and AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc., and the Phase II data recovery work plan and subsequent analysis and reportage subject to review...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip J. Wilke. Meg McDonald.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip J. Wilke.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda S. Cordell.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Albert H. Schroeder.

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This report only contains the Appendices A - J. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is requesting proposals for supplementary inventory survey and mitigation of cultural resources to be impacted by construction of the Granite Reef Aqueduct and Granite Reef Aqueduct Transmission System. This aqueduct and transmission system are features of the Central Arizona Project (CAP), which is a multipurpose water resource development and management project designed to provide supplemental water to central and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glennda Gene Luhnow.

MCDOT plans to improve Northern Avenue to be a parkway in the Phoenix metropolitan area where no freeways are planned. At the request of Mr. Robin Shishido of Parsons, a cultural resource assessment of the project area of potential effects (APE) was conducted by Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS). The purpose of the cultural resource assessment was to identify any historic properties in the APE that could be affected by the undertaking (Schilling and Jones 2012). Two historic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text S. Jerome Hesse.

This document combines the preliminary results of archaeological eligibility testing at AZ BB:9:360 (ASM) with a data recovery plan-of-work based on the results of testing. This document was prepared at the request of Merry, Carnell, Schlecht, Inc., on behalf of the Tanque Verde Unified School District. Archaeological testing at AZ BB:9:360 (ASM) involved controlled surface collection and the excavation of three backhoe trenches totaling 77 m in length. Three archaeological features including...

DOCUMENT Full-Text M. Zyniecki.

The City of Phoenix sponsored a voluntary archaeological project at the proposed location of a new recreation building. The project area is within the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Viejo, AZ T:12:73(ASM). The village was occupied from the Colonial period through the Classic period and covers about 640 acres. Field work at the site was conducted between March 30 and April 14, 1992, by a crew of four. Post-excavation monitoring of utility trenches by a single archaeologist took place September...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael S. Foster. Ronald F. Ryden.

Sun Belt Holdings-Vistancia LLC is planning a 3,825-acre housing development (White Peak Ranch) on private land in Maricopa County, Arizona. A cultural resources survey identified 16 archaeological sites within the proposed development. Three sites, AZ T:3:128 (ASM), AZ T:3:281 (ASM), and AZ T:3:283 (ASM), were recommended as eligible under Criterion D for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), however, the ACOE, with the concurrence of the Arizona SHPO, recommended the sites be tested...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen Rice. Patricia E. Brown.

Under contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Office of Cultural Resource Management (OCRM), Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, completed a general research design for completion of archaeological survey and mitigation of cultural resources that would be impacted by the construction of the Granite Reef Aqueduct for the Central Arizona Project. Because it was not possible to specify the extent of the work to be completed at the initiation of the project, general...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Steven D. Shelley.

The Gila Land Disposal Cultural Resources Survey is a Class II survey of approximately 5,330 acres. The project area is located approximately 15 miles west of Yuma, Arizona, near the towns of Wellton and Tacna, Arizona. The project is designed to locate, describe and evaluate cultural resources on several parcels of land, prior to their disposal by the Bureau of Reclamation. The Project Area lies south of the Gila River in a region which averages between two to four inches of rain per year,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sara C. Ferland.

SWCA Environmental Services (SWCA) was contracted by the National Farm Workers Services Center, Inc. (NFWSC) to conduct archaeological testing for canals and related features in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. NFWSC is proposing to construct senior housing on the property. The City of Phoenix (COP) Archaeology Office recommended that testing be conducted prior to any ground disturbance due to the presence of three prehistoric canal segments on the property. No sites have been previously...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Justin Rego.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring and testing for a COP sewer line project. The project involved the installation of sewer and connector pipes, the removal of corrugated pipe and the installation of utility access holes along the existing and new sewer alignments within Broadway Road. Archaeological monitoring and test trenching were conducted under an approved Treatment Plan. No archaeological features were identified during testing, but six isolated occurrences were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wesley Gibson.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during grounddisturbing activities at the site. Logan Simpson was requested to monitor ground-disturbing activities because of the potential to encounter cultural resources. The project involved replacing and reconnecting sewer lines from an existing house to city sewer lines. Ground-disturbing activities included mechanical and hand trenching.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Justin P. Rego.

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring for two COP Neighborhood Services Department (NSD) improvement projects. The two parcels are each within the 50-ft-wide buffer zone of an unnamed canal that is projected to traverse the properties. The COP recommended archaeological monitoring to document possible cultural resources within the project area. All ground disturbing activities were monitored within 50 ft on either side of two prehistoric canals projected to cross two...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sara C. Ferland.

In preparation for building construction, the Salt River Project (SRP) is reconfiguring an irrigation facility on Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) easement in Phoenix, Maricopa County. Specifically, existing above ground irrigation canals are being abandoned and replaced with subsurface concrete pipes. Because Reclamation is a federal agency, the project is subject to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended. The project area is located within the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Stubing.

The project consists of repair of rain damage to the platform mound and ball court at Pueblo Grande. The repair will be done in two phases. Phase 1, which is covered within this report, repaired damage to the protective backfill/wall capping and drainage system around the perimeter of the mound, and removed excessive sediment from the drainage sump of the ball court. Phase 2, which will be conducted at a later date, will repair damage on the top of the mound consisting of erosion beneath the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Justin P. Rego. Michael Bryk. Lesley Rodriguez.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring for a COP water line project. The project involved the installation of a new waterline along an existing alignment in Phoenix. Archaeological monitoring was conducted under the established Monitoring and Discovery Plan for the city of Phoenix (Montero and Stubing 2004). As a result of the project, five features were recorded and two previously reported sites were given ASM site numbers.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alexandra Howard. Christopher Garraty.

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring in advance of Sun State Builder’s (Sun State) anticipated construction of warehouse facilities within an L-shaped area. This project area is situated within a Hohokam village habitation site with a known platform mound. The project area also encompasses a historic residential property that has not been evaluated for National Registry of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility. The project involved excavation (mechanical grading and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul M. Rawson.

The City of Tucson (COT) proposes to widen Silverbell Road. The project would entail construction of a four-lane divided roadway with raised medians, paved shoulders, a multi-use path, pavement markings, striping and signing, and drainage improvements. Funding for the project would be provided by the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA). The area of potential effects (APE) for this 1.15-mile-long project is located between the west bank of the Santa Cruz River and the toe of the Tucson...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Adrienne Tremblay. Ronald Ryden.

SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) was contracted by Communication Services, Inc. (CSI), to conduct archaeological testing and monitoring at the Union Monopole telecommunication tower site, which is located within the boundaries of AZ T:12:3 (ASM), Las Moradas. The project area is located in Maricopa County, Arizona. T-Mobile is installing a new utility line from an existing tower to a nearby power box. In 2004, Aztlan Archaeology, Inc. (Aztlan), conducted a cultural resources survey of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. R. Barr. S. Jerome Hesse.

Trico Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Trico), plans to use federal funding from the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to rebuild overhead Circuits 12 and 18 near Marana in unincorporated Pima County, Arizona. Seventeen new poles and pole-anchors will be erected in Hog Farm Ball Court site, AZ AA:11:12(ASM). An additional 11 poles will be replaced in the same location as existing poles (in-place replacement). RUS consulted with the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), and it was determined...