Pima (County) (Geographic Keyword)

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 Allen Dart.

From March 8 through March 17, 1988, archaeologists from the Institute for American Research spent 22 person-days conducting exploratory excavations at two archaeological sites within the proposed Continental Ranch development in Marana, Arizona. This subsurface testing project, referred to hereafter as the "CR-WAPA testing" project, was sponsored by the American Continental corporation, developer of the property that contains the two archaeological sites. The archaeological sites tested during...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David B. Tucker.

This document combines the preliminary results of archaeological testing at AZ AA:12:111 (ASM) with a data recovery plan-of-work based on the results of testing. This document was prepared at the request of Linda L. Mayro, the Cultural Resources Manager for Pima County. All work was conducted under contract no. 70-04-S-131110-0602, work order HYX-726. The proposed location for a new warehouse building at the Ina Road Water Pollution Control Facility is located on the periphery of a previously...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lee Terzis. Jon M. Shumaker.

The project involved archaeological testing of two sites on a 32.27-acre parcel owned by Sahuarita School District No. 30 in Pima County. Both sites-AZ EE:1:87 (ASM) and AZ EE:1:140 (ASM)-will be impacted by the construction of a new high school. The sites are located in Pima County, and are mapped on the Sahuarita, Arizona USGS 1.5' quadrangle. The work was done by SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants of Tucson in February of 1997, at the request of Dr. Jay C. St. John of the Sahuarita Unified...

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...

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Archaeological investigations were conducted along the periphery of Honey Bee Village, AZ BB:9:88 (ASM), and in the floodplain of Honey Bee Wash prior to construction activities by Mattamy Arizona, LLC. Honey Bee Village is a large, National Register-eligible site that contains a plaza, a ballcourt and more than 380 pit structures and 277 excavated mortuary features. The goal of the current project was to identify any mortuary features and to excavate them respectfully, before they might be...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M.R. Barr.

In June 2005, SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted an archaeological survey for Trico Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Trico), along the east side of North Trico Road for a proposed underground utility line (Barr 2005). Because the proposed utility line was located within the known site boundaries of the Hog Farm Ballcourt site (AZ AA:11:12 [ASM]), Trico redesigned the project as an overhead power line to minimize impacts to the archaeological site. SWCA developed an archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah Herr.

This report documents the findings of archaeological testing conducted for Bourn Partners as part of their due diligence assessment of approximately 60 acres of land. Archaeological testing was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., between 25 July and 2 August 2005. A total of 18 person-days was spent on the field investigations by Sarah Herr, Greg Whitney, Richard Antone, and Sarah Luchetta. William H. Doelle, Ph.D., of Desert Archaeology, Inc., was the principal investigator. Cultural...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Danielle Desruisseaux. Kevin D. Wellman.

This testing report and data recovery plan has been assembled to address issues specific to the construction of a pipeline and headworks associated with the Phase I expansion of Pima County’s Ina Road Wastewater Pollution Control Facility (treatment plant). It comprises three chapters sections, the first of which presents a project introduction and overview. The second chapter summarizes the results of the testing project and includes a discussion of eligibility of the archaeological properties...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul M. Rawson. S. Jerome Hesse.

The Pima County Information Technology Department and the Pima County Sheriffs Department have joined with a number of public safety entities to develop and put to use the Pima County Wireless Integrated Network (PCWIN)—a regional public safety radio system. The PCWIN project included establishment of more than 30 tower sites and/or dispatch centers, the majority of which involved the collocation of new facilities onto existing tower structures and/or within existing buildings. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset. India S. Hesse. Paul M. Rawson.

Prior to widening, the City of Tucson (COT) Department of Transportation sponsored a series of investigations to identify archaeological sites that would be affected by the road project and to mitigate adverse effects to the sites, where needed. The first step in identifying archaeological sites was a cultural resources survey, conducted by SWCA Environmental Consultants in 2009. Although no archaeological sites were found during the survey, much of the study area was inaccessible due to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patricia Cook.

Desert Archaeology, Inc., conducted data recovery a prehistoric archaeological site located within the Los Reales Landfill, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. Subsurface archaeological features were encountered in late May 2007, during normal landfill activity by landfill personnel to mine sediments. The exposure of four features caused the sediment excavation activities to cease. Desert Archaeology was contacted by landfill administrators on 25 May 2007, to assess the features and to determine if...

DOCUMENT Full-Text M.L. Brack.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) purchased property at North Freeway, Tucson, Arizona, to facilitate improvements along the Interstate 10 (I-10) corridor. Following completion of construction, ADOT proposed selling the property lying outside the I-10 right-of-way. EcoPlan Associates, environmental consultants to ADOT, requested a cultural resources assessment of the property prior to sale. Desert Archaeology, Inc., identified potentially significant surface remains and initiated a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text S. Jerome Hesse.

On December 14, 2006, under contract with Outpost Development, SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) completed the fieldwork component of National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility testing at AZ BB:9:413 (ASM). NRHP eligibility testing took place within the proposed Outpost Preserve residential development in unincorporated Pima County, Arizona. Testing efforts included complete surface artifact collection and excavation of 81 linear meters of archaeological test trenches. No...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset. S. Jerome Hesse.

On July 1, 2014, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted Sierrita Gas Pipeline LLC (Sierrita) notice to proceed with the construction of the Sierrita Pipeline Project (the Project), a new natural gas pipeline and appurtenant facilities in Pima County, Arizona, that deliver natural gas from El Paso Natural Gas Company’s existing pipeline system southwest of Tucson to an interconnect point at the U.S.-Mexico border near the town of Sasabe. Concurrent with the construction of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael W. Lindeman.

This report details the results of limited excavation and in-situ preservation efforts at four loci located on the northern end of the Valencia site, AZ BB:13:15 (ASM), and at AZ BB:13:74 (ASM). Working together, Pima Community College, the City of Tucson, the State Historic Preservation Office, the Tohono O’odham Nation, and Desert Archaeology, Inc., were able to craft a strategy that maximized information gain and preserved these two important archaeological sites. The project contained three...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Helga Wocherl.

The results of archaeological monitoring at AZ AA:16:39 (ASM) and the results of phase 2 data recovery at AZ AA:16:410 (ASM) and subsequent monitoring are detailed in this report. Following recommendations from phase 1 data recovery (Wocherl 2000b), the work was conducted pursuant to the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) initiated by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), as lead federal agency for this project. Under authority of Arizona State Museum (ASM) Permit Number 2000-107ps(A1), Desert...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset. David M. R. Barr.

Meritage Homes (Meritage) proposes to construct a residential subdivision on property in the town of Oro Valley, north of Tucson, Arizona. A Class III archaeological inventory of the project area was conducted by Stephen (2000), and three prehistoric archaeological sites—AZ BB:9:353 (ASM), AZ BB:9:354 (ASM), and AZ BB:9:354 (ASM)— were identified within the area of potential effects (APE) of what is now designated as the Meritage Kai 291 South project. AZ BB:9:354 (ASM) was tested in 2004 by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset.

Meritage Homes (Meritage) proposes to construct a residential subdivision in the town of Oro Valley (Town), north of Tucson, Arizona. One recorded site, AZ BB:9:262/338 (ASM), is located in the northeastern portion of the proposed Kai 291 North project area. Lucas (2014) recommended that the site be tested for its eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historical Places (NRHP). The Town required that Meritage assess the eligibility of the site and include the results in its...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Helga Wöcherl.

The results of archaeological Phase 1 data recovery, including exploratory excavation and supplemental archival research, of an artifact scatter, Component B, within the municipal boundaries of the Town of Sahuarita, Pima County, Arizona, are presented in this report. The work was requested by Sage Landscape Architecture and Environmental for the planned Quail Crossing Boulevard alignment to be constructed by the Town of Sahuarita on State Trust Land (State Land Department Row #16-112095)....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrew Dutt. Michelle N. Stevens.

The City of Tucson had proposed to construct a water recharge basin on the east side of the Santa Cruz River between Sweetwater Road and Camino del Cerro. Phase 1 archaeological data recovery was conducted at the City's request because the project area lies within the boundaries of AZ A A:12:91 (ASM), also known as the Los Pozos site. Previous archaeological work has established the significance of the Los Pozos site, which has been determined to be eligible for inclusion on the National...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Helga Wöcherl.

The purpose of this report is two-fold. It is, first and foremost, a report on the results of a relatively small field investigation within a portion of the Los Pozos site. These recent investigations did not encounter buried archaeological features despite discovery of such in an immediately adjacent area during a previous project. Due to a gradual accumulation of substantial amounts of fieldwork over the past 20 years, the second part of this report is a compilation and synthesis of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset. David M. R. Barr. S. Jerome Hesse. Paul M. Rawson.

Pima County Department of Transportation is proposing to construct a newly aligned road in Pima County. The realigned road would cross through two previously investigated archaeological sites—AZ AA:12:11 (ASM) and AZ AA:12:788 (ASM), the latter more commonly known as the Rillito Fan site. Pima County Office of Sustainability and Conservation retained SWCA Environmental Consultants to develop and implement a Phase 1 data recovery (data testing) plan for the portions of these two sites that would...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah Swartz.

Current excavations at the West Branch site, AZ AA:16:3 (ASM), by Desert Archaeology, Inc., focused on a small portion of the southern end of the site prior to private construction. Artifacts will be curated at the Arizona State Museum (ASM) with accession number 2003-0382. Forty-one features identified within the project area included: 7 structures, 2 extramural surfaces, 3 trash concentrations, 1 horno, 1 roasting pit, 6 burial features, and 21 additional extramural pits. The horno and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Henry D. Wallace.

Archaeological investigations at the West Branch Site (AZ AA:16:3) produced over 5,000 sherds and re-constructible vessels of Rincon Red-on-brown. A numerical seriation of controlled, unmixed contexts reported in a companion volume (Wallace 19 86a) demonstrated the utility of a division of Rincon Red- on-brown into three subtypes. In this study, the three subtypes, Early, Middle, and Late Rincon Red-on-brown, are described and illustrated with special reference to the West Branch and Valencia...