Casa Grande (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie A. Darby.

The results  of additional Class  3 cultural resources  surveys  for the  Pinal West to  Dinosaur Extra-high Voltage Transmission Line Project are presented in this report. The transmission line  is  being  constructed  by  the  Salt  River  Project Agricultural  Improvement  and  Power District  (SRP);  it  will  link  the  Pinal  West, Santa Rosa,  Pinal Central, Abel, and Dinosaur Substations located in south-central Arizona. The results from the bulk of cultural resources  surveys  for  the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie A. Darby.

This report presents the results of an additional Class III cultural resources survey for the Pinal West to Pinal Central segment of the larger Pinal West to Southeast Valley/Browning Extra-High Voltage Transmission Line project. The surveyed property consists of a 4.4-acre easement across privately owned land located southeast of Casa Grande, Arizona. The work was requested by Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) prior to development/use of the easement as an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark R. Hackbarth.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) conducted a Class III archaeological survey of the proposed Salt River Project (SRP) Quail Substation expansion. Prior to the survey, an examination of site files maintained by the Arizona State Museum and the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office was conducted. No previously recorded sites were reported within two miles of the vicinity. The General Land Office maps, curated by the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Land Management, were examined prior to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas D. Yoder.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) has conducted archaeological testing at 37 sites at the request of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and ASARCO, Inc. (Asarco). The proposed BLM-ASARCO Ray land exchange could impact up to 80 archeological sites within parcels considered for the transfer of surface or minerals out of federal ownership. Twenty of these are sites that were considered eligible for the National Register based on survey data, so no testing was conducted on these sites....

DOCUMENT Full-Text S. Jerome Hesse.

On September 25, 2000, SWCA, Inc. completed a Class ID cultural resources survey for an approximately 7-mile long gas pipeline alignment near Casa Grande, Pinal County, Arizona. The purpose of the survey was to determine if any cultural resources existed that may be adversely impacted by the installation and maintenance of a proposed gas pipeline from Reliant Energy's Desert Basin Generating Facility on Burris Road south approximately seven miles to an existing El Paso Natural Gas pipeline. This...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sharon K. Bauer. A.E. (Gene) Rogge.

Reliant Energy, Inc. (Reliant) is planning to construct an evaporation pond just to the east of evaporation ponds recently completed for the Desert Basin Power Plant. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) has purview over the "jurisdictional waters of the United States" on the proposed evaporation pond site, and construction of the ponds will require a permit from the COE under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The COE must comply with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text A.E. (Gene) Rogge.. Rachel Davies. Carmen Costner. Cara Lonardo. Sharon K. Bauer.

Reliant Energy, Inc. plans to install water supply and discharge facilities to serve the Desert Basin Power Plant now under construction in Casa Grande, Arizona. A buried water supply pipeline, approximately 9 miles long, would be used to convey Central Arizona Project water to the power plant from the East Main Canal of the Maricopa-Stanfield Irrigation District. A buried water discharge pipeline, about 3.5 miles long, would be used to transport wastewater from the cooling towers at the power...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sharon K. Bauer. David E. Doyel. A. E. (Gene) Rogge.

Reliant Energy has acquired an option to purchase a 40-acre parcel known as the Alvarado property. Reliant is conducting “due diligence” studies that will be considered in deciding whether to purchase the property as a potential industrial development site. Reliant retained URS Corporation to assist in those studies by conducting a Phase 1 environmental site assessment, determining whether there are jurisdictional waters of the United States on the property, evaluating whether special status...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson. Tiffany C. Clark. Connie A. Darby.

This report presents the results of a Class III cultural resources survey of Arizona State Land right-of-way easements for a new extra-high voltage transmission line to be built between the Santa Rosa Substation, located south of the Ak Chin Indian Community, and the Dinosaur Substation, located east of the Town of Queen Creek, in Pinal County, Arizona (Figure 1). The proposed transmission line is part of the larger Pinal West to Abel/Browning (PW-ABL/BRG) 500 kV Transmission Line Project. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph A. Ezzo.

Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI) contracted with URS, Grenier Woodward Clyde to undertake a cultural resources survey of a 20-acre parcel of land in the city of Casa Grande, Arizona. The land is the projected future site of a privately owned power plant. On February 10, 1999, Joseph Ezzo of SRI met John Egan of URS Grenier Woodward Clyde in Tucson and the two drove out to the subject property. Mr. Egan determined the boundaries of the subject property for Dr. Ezzo, who then conducted the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Lindeman.

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct an 88-mile-long extra-high voltage transmission line linking the Pinal West, Santa Rosa, Pinal Central, Abel, and Dinosaur Substations. The project corridor traverses the area from the Maricopa/Pinal County line west of the Ak Chin Indian Community, southeastward and eastward past Casa Grande, Arizona, then roughly northward past Coolidge and Florence, Arizona, ending east of Queen Creek, Arizona, along the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lyle M. Stone. James E. Ayres.

This is a final, summary report on historic cultural resources in relation to the Central Arizona Water Control Study (CAWCS). The objectives of the CAWCS were to identify and evaluate alternative measures for flood control and regulatory water storage in Central Arizona in conjunction with construction of the Central Arizona Project. Having considered numerous alternative plans to meet these objectives, the Bureau of Reclamation defined a preferred alternative (Plan...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chris North. Tina Hart. Michael S. Foster.

Logan Simpson Design Inc., under contract to SRP, completed Phase I archeological data recovery at five sites and Phase II data recovery at two of the sites along the Pinal West To Pinal Central Extra-High Voltage Transmission Line and at the Pinal Central substation site, Pinal County, Arizona. The sites are located south and east of the town of Casa Grande. Three of the sites—AZ AA:1:104(ASM), AZ AA:2:301 (ASM), and AZ AA:2:303(ASM)— are Historic era and two—AZ AA:2:284(ASM) and AZ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey. Richard Ciolek-Torello. Matthew A. Sterner.

This report presents an overview of the prehistoric and historic archaeological resources in the proposed Western Army National Guard Aviation Training site (WAATS) in south-central Arizona prepared for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District (COE). The purpose of this overview was to provide WAATS with a Class I Survey representing the initial step in the assessment of potential impacts to cultural resources in this large region as a result of helicopter over flights and landings...